Saskia Sassen was born on January 5,1947 and is a Dutch-American sociologist noted for her analyses of globalization and international human migration.
11 Facts About Saskia Sassen
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Saskia Sassen is Robert S Lynd Professor of Sociology at Columbia University in New York City, and Centennial visiting Professor at the London School of Economics.
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Saskia Sassen's father was a Dutch collaborator with the Nazis, a Nazi journalist, and a member of the Waffen-SS.
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Artist Hilary Koob-Saskia Sassen is her son from her first marriage.
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From 1966, Saskia Sassen spent a year each at the Universite de Poitiers, France, the Universita degli Studi di Roma, and the University of Buenos Aires, for studies in philosophy and political science.
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Saskia Sassen received a master's degree in philosophy from the University of Poitiers in 1974.
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Saskia Sassen is currently Robert S Lynd Professor of Sociology at Columbia University and Centennial Visiting Professor of Political Economy in the Department of Sociology at the London School of Economics.
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Saskia Sassen studied the impacts of globalisation such as economic restructuring, and how the movements of labour and capital influence urban life.
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Saskia Sassen studied the influence of communication technology on governance.
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Saskia Sassen observed how nation states begin to lose power to control these developments, and she studied increasing general transnationalism, including transnational human migration.
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Saskia Sassen identified and described the phenomenon of the global city.