Joe immigrated to the United States from Malaysia when he was 21 years old and has been living in New York City for over 30 years. For him, immigration was a chance for adventure:
[Leaving the country] was like an exciting trip and it was just like traveling for me at the beginning. I didn’t think of anything, you know, anything more than that. So, I’m an adventurous person. I just came with a couple of underwears, a couple of T-shirts, and not even that many pairs of pants. A couple of hundred dollars in my pocket and then I came. Didn’t even have a toothbrush.”
