Refugees living in contexts of protracted displacement face overlapping and recurring crises that extend beyond the initial experience of forced migration. This article examines how refugees in Malaysia navigate such crises while living under conditions of legal precarity, economic marginalization, and social exclusion. Drawing on longitudinal qualitative interviews with refugee community leaders conducted across four rounds between 2020 and 2022, the study identifies 32 distinct coping mechanisms employed in response to external shocks and everyday structural constraints. These mechanisms are grouped into five categories inspired by Lazarus and Folkman’s stress-coping framework: problem-focused, emotion-focused, meaning-focused, social-support-based, and maladaptive coping.