Guests and Aliens

by Saskia Sassen and Saskia Sassan

Book Overview

Guests and Aliens presents a comprehensive analysis of worldwide immigration by one of the world's leading experts on globalization. Putting the current "crisis" of immigration into a historical context for the first time, Sassen suggests that the American experience represents only one phase in a history of global border crossing. She describes the mass migrations of Italians and Eastern European Jews during the nineteenth and early twentieth...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1565846087
• ISBN13: 9781565846081
• Release Date: June 2000
• Publisher: New Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 9.0"