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Asylum Denied: A Refugee's Struggle for Safety in America | 
 enlarge | Authors: David Ngaruri Kenney, Philip G. Schrag
Publisher: University of California Press
Category: Book
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Rating:  10 reviews
Sales Rank: 195606
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1
Pages: 360
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.4
Dimensions (in): 9 x 5.9 x 1.2
ISBN: 0520255100
Dewey Decimal Number: 323.631
EAN: 9780520255104
ASIN: 0520255100
Publication Date: May 1, 2008
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Product Description
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.
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A Must Read May 19, 2008
Sara Gates
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
For those of you looking for a good summer read to take to the beach, or just a great book to snuggle up with on a rainy day, I highly recommend opening up the pages of Asylum Denied. It is both informative and inspiring as it tells the story of David Kenney Ngaruri, the political asylee who struggled to stay in America. Although the book is currently being passed around law schools, as the new go-to-guide for asylum law, I am sure it will not be long before it makes the bestseller stands at nation-wide bookstores or grabs a spot on Oprah's booklist. Asylum Denied, written by two authors, the above-mentioned David Kenney Ngaruri and Philip Schrag, the professor of law at Georgetown University, serves both as a law manual and as a heart-warming story of adventure, perseverance, and love. Unlike most law-related books, it reads very smoothly and catches your attention from the first page. Even if this is not the usual type of book you read, I urge you to give it a try. If the face on the cover of the book is not enough to convince you to read it, then I hope this review will.
Want to know what immigration law is really like? May 23, 2008
Jill (Pennsylvania)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is an amazing book that makes plain the unbelievable complexity of immigration law. Anyone with an interest in immigration policy should read this book.
An Excellent Read! March 31, 2008
K. Sugnet (Portland Oregon)
I highly recommend this book! It is a rivoting story of a remarkable man's journey from a tea farmer in rural Kenya to a law school student in Washington D.C.
Reads like fiction, but it's true! April 4, 2008
Anonymous Reader (DC)
You can't believe this could happen to someone. But it did. And it happened here. This is a wonderfully readable story of the law, the US justice system, and a journey. Mr. Kenney and Mr. Schrag saw the story from such completely different viewpoints that it's hard to believe they could combine them, but they did. They take us on a ride through Mr. Kenney's life, through the asylum "system" in the US, and end up with a combination of defeat and triumph that's hard to believe. It's our good fortune to be able to go along for the ride.
Asylum Denied April 19, 2008
David C. Koelsch (Detroit, Michigan)
This is a gripping story of one man's journey from persecution in his home country to being caught in the Kafkaesque U.S. immigration bureaucracy. It is a vital read for anyone who wants to see the system from the inside out. Read this book and tell your neighbors about it.
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