Guests and aliens / Saskia Sassen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sassan, Saskia.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Emigration and immigration--History.

Emigration and immigration.

History.

Refugees--History.

Emigration and immigration--Government policy--History.

Refugees--Government policy--History.

Refugees--Government policy.

Emigration and immigration--Government policy.

Refugees.

Physical Description:

xxi, 202 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : New Press : Distributed by W.W. Norton, [1999]

Summary:

Saskia Sassen's analysis of global transfers of money and power have earned her a reputation as one of the world's leading experts on globalization. In Guests and Aliens she brings her impressive interpretive skills to bear on the related issue of immigration, putting current "crises" in an historical context for the first time.

Guests and Aliens shows the causes of immigration that historically have resulted in nations' welcoming incomers as guests or disparaging them as aliens. Sassen describes the relative normality of the pursuit of work across borders during the emergence of the European nation-states and explains the economic and political mass migrations of Italians and Eastern European Jews during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. She also discusses the dislocations--particularly those after the end of World War II--that have engendered the "refugee" concept.

By mapping the long history of global migration, Sassen shows that the American experience is just one phase in an extended history of border crossing.

Contents:

2. 1800 7

3. After 1848 33

4. Nations and Migrations: Germany, France, Italy 51

5. The State and the Foreigner 77

6. Patterns, Rights, Regulations 99

7. Making Immigration Policy Today 133

Appendix. Tables, Immigrants and Asylum Seekers 1960-1996 159.

Notes:

"Originally published in Germany, c1996"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [171]-195) and index.

ISBN:

1565844815

OCLC:

40395458