Asylum Denied: A Refugee’s Struggle for Safety in America
- ISBN-10
- 0520261593
- ISBN-13
- 9780520261594
- Category
- Social Science
- Pages
- 352
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2009-08-17
- Publisher
- Univ of California Press
- Authors
- Philip G. Schrag, David Ngaruri Kenney
Description
Describes one political refugee's long and difficult struggle through immigration processing, detailing his imprisonment in Kenya, his escape to the U.S., and the ordeal of dealing with a bureaucracy that sought to deport him.
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