Disappointed by Hope:Migrants and Refugees in Search of A Better Country (2010) explores the migrant crisis and the human rights abuses of refugees in Malaysia.
Results:
- Widely circulated in English and Mandarin
- Sales of the book helped to launch and fund a a school in Penang, Malaysia whose primary student base is Rohingya children, a people group described by the United Nations in 2014 as the most persecuted ethnic group in the world
- It inspired readers to petition the government and create medical teams who brought critical aid to detention centres in Malaysia where more than 200,000 undocumented migrants languish