Educational biography is a narrative account of a life, which represents and interprets an individual's educational experience, broadly defined. This article presents the educational biographies of three members of a Hmong refugee family. Yong Lee is a Hmong refugee who has recently moved with his family to Michigan. He is unemployed, and he, his wife, his mother, and his children subsist on welfare. The first part of this article consists of the Lee family educational biography, as told through the narratives of Yong Lee; his daughter Malee; and his eldest son, Jerry. The second part provides an interpretation of how crises and continuity shape the educational lives of the Lees as they negotiate the cultural borderlands of their situated and enduring selves. In the final part of this article, the author suggests ways in which such educational biographies can be used in the education of immigrants and all Americans.
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