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Asylum denied : a refugee's struggle for safety in America / David Ngaruri Kenney and Philip G. Schrag.
De Gruyter University of California Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013 Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kenney, David Ngaruri, 1973-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Kenney, David Ngaruri, 1973-.
- Kenney, David Ngaruri.
- Immigrants--Government policy--United States.
- Immigrants.
- Political refugees--Government policy--United States.
- Political refugees.
- Civil rights--United States.
- Civil rights.
- Human rights--United States.
- Human rights.
- Political refugees--United States--Biography.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (361 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley : University of California Press, c2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Asylum Denied is the gripping story of political refugee David Ngaruri Kenney's harrowing odyssey through the world of immigration processing in the United States. Kenney, while living in his native Kenya, led a boycott to protest his government's treatment of his fellow farmers. He was subsequently arrested and taken into the forest to be executed. This book, told by Kenney and his lawyer Philip G. Schrag from Kenney's own perspective, tells of his near-murder, imprisonment, and torture in Kenya; his remarkable escape to the United States; and the obstacle course of ordeals and proceedings he faced as U.S. government agencies sought to deport him to Kenya. A story of courage, love, perseverance, and legal strategy, Asylum Denied brings to life the human costs associated with our immigration laws and suggests reforms that are desperately needed to help other victims of human rights violations.
- Contents:
- The farmers' boycott
- Basketball
- Temporary safety
- Bernie and Dave
- My day in court
- Winning the lottery
- The fourth circuit
- A cold day in Richmond
- Exiled
- The witch arrives
- The lawyer's epilogue
- The client's epilogue.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 331-346) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786611385552
- 9781281385550
- 1281385557
- 9780520934726
- 0520934725
- OCLC:
- 476162460
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