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Asylum Denied: A Refugee's Struggle For Safety In America (2008)

by David Ngaruri Kenney(Favorite Author)

4.02 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

0520255100 (ISBN13: 9780520255104)

languge

English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

publisher

University of California Press

review 1: I loved this book. it is coauthored by an asylum applicant and the law professor whose clinic unsuccessfully represented him through his original application and appeals. Most of fhe narrative is David Ngaruri Kenney's life story, from childhood to imprisonment in Kenya because he'd led a protest of tea growers to his life in America. The professor, Phillip Schrag, concludes the book with an appendix demonstrating the huge inconsistencies in the treatment of asylum applicants.
review 2: The true story of a Kenyan refugee’s (and brief TU law student's) triumphs and tribulations, as he tries to do the right things in life. The after all the beating and torture that he has gone through in one of his main antagonists turns out to be the US Immigration Agency. He ... morewill come lecture at his old TU campus this November 4th at six o'clock in the Price Turpen Courtroom. This event is so special that a con law class will get a participation point for attending and writing a paragraph about the event! less

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