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Record Nr.

UNINA9910810625403321

Autore

Kenney David Ngaruri <1973->

Titolo

Asylum denied : a refugee's struggle for safety in America / / David Ngaruri Kenney and Philip G. Schrag

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2008

ISBN

1-281-38555-7

9786611385552

0-520-93472-5

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (361 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

SchragPhilip G. <1943->

Disciplina

323.6/31

B

Soggetti

Immigrants - Government policy - United States

Political refugees - Government policy - United States

Civil rights - United States

Human rights - United States

Political refugees - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 331-346) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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.