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David  Ngaruri Kenney and Philip G. Schrag, co-authors of “Asylum Denied: A Refugee’s Struggle for Safety in America,” will give lectures at UNC-Chapel Hill on Sept. 30 at the FedEx Global Education Center and Oct. 1 at the School of Law. The book chronicles Kenney’s harrowing journey through the world of immigration processing in the United States.

While living in his native Kenya, Kenney led a boycott to protest his government’s treatment of his fellow farmers. He was arrested and taken into the forest to be executed. This book, told by Kenney and Schrag, his co-author and lawyer, from Kenney’s own perspective, tells of his near-murder, imprisonment and torture in Kenya; his 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. The book reveals how immigration laws affect people and suggests reforms that are necessary to help other victims of human rights violations.

Both events are free and open to the public. The Sept. 30 lecture will begin at 7 p.m. in the Nelson Mandela Auditorium of the Global Education Center, 301 Pittsboro St. , with a reception to follow. The Oct. 1 lecture will begin at noon in the rotunda of the School of Law at 100 Ridge Road.

The events are hosted by the Immigration Law Association, the Immigration/Human Rights Policy Clinic and the Center for Global Initiatives. 

School of Law contact: Katie Bowler, (919) 843-7148, kbowler@unc.edu
News Services contact: Susan Houston, (919) 962-8415, susan_houston@unc.edu

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