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Cities in a World Economy
2018 || Paperback || Saskia Sassen || SAGE
Cities in a World Economy examines the emergence of global cities as a new social formation, as well as sites of rapid and widespread developments in the areas of finance, information and people.
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Expulsions
Brutality and Complexity in the Global Economy
2024 || Hardcover || Saskia Sassen || Harvard University Press
Income inequality, displaced and imprisoned populations, destruction of land and water: today’s dislocations cannot be understood in the usual terms of poverty and injustice, Saskia Sassen argues. They are more accurately understood as expulsions—from professional livelihood, from living space, from the very biosphere that makes life possible.
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A Third Emergent Migrant Subject Unrecognized in Law: Refugees from 'Development'
Third Annual T.M.C. Asser Lecture
2023 || Paperback || Saskia Sassen || T.M.C. Asser Press
Saskia Sassen on her lecture 'A Third Emergent Migrant Subject Unrecognized in Law: Refugees from ‘Development’':
‘There is an emergent type of migrant not formally recognised in law. She is a kind of refugee, but not of war. Rather this is a refugee from particular forms of economic development that not only cause environmental destruction but also have expelled millions of rural smallholders from their land over the last few years.
They include mining, plantations, land grabs to expan...