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Asylum Denied

by David Ngaruri Kenney
Philip G. Shrag
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Asylum Denied is the gripping story of political refugee David Ngaruri Kenney's harrowing odyssey through the Kafkaesque 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 by the Kenyan government 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. As we travel with Kenney through the bureaucracies that regulate immigration, we learn that despite this country's claim to welcome political refugees, our system is too often one of arbitrary justice highly dependent on individual public officials. A story of courage, love, perseverance, and legal strategy, Asylum Denied brings to life the human costs associated with our immigration laws and suggests policy reforms that are desperately needed to help other victims of human rights violations.

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Publisher: The University of California Press Edition: Unabridged

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  • ISBN: 9780520941939
  • File size: 312455 KB
  • Release date: May 27, 2008
  • Duration: 10:50:56

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  • ISBN: 9780520941939
  • File size: 312837 KB
  • Release date: May 27, 2008
  • Duration: 10:50:51
  • Number of parts: 11
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Law Politics Sociology Nonfiction

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Asylum Denied is the gripping story of political refugee David Ngaruri Kenney's harrowing odyssey through the Kafkaesque 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 by the Kenyan government 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. As we travel with Kenney through the bureaucracies that regulate immigration, we learn that despite this country's claim to welcome political refugees, our system is too often one of arbitrary justice highly dependent on individual public officials. A story of courage, love, perseverance, and legal strategy, Asylum Denied brings to life the human costs associated with our immigration laws and suggests policy reforms that are desperately needed to help other victims of human rights violations.

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Law Politics Sociology Nonfiction