The Gatekeepers
The Gatekeepers is a timely, comprehensive companion for students, researchers, academics, or any person interested in US immigration policy and practice. It tells the detailed story of American immigration policies and politics over time. Drawing on Franz Kafka’s parable Before the Law, in which a gatekeeper blocks access to legal protections, which replicates the present moment in immigration policy and politics, the book traces how the US immigration gatekeeping apparatus has evolved from its historical foundations through the second Donald J. Trump presidency.
Dr Serena Clark is the Director of the MA in Public Policy and Lecturer in the Department of Political Science at Stony Brook University. She received her PhD from Trinity College Dublin (Republic of Ireland), where she was a Rotary Global Grant Scholar. Serena has experience consulting for the United Nations and the Economist Intelligence Unit. Her research interests primarily focus on immigration, policy, and European and American politics.