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Fear and strange arithmetics: when powerful states confront powerless immigrants

It is surprising to see the high price in terms of ethical and economic costs that powerful ‘liberal democracies' seem willing to pay in order to control extremely powerless people who only want a chance to work. Immigrants and refugees have to be understood as a historical vanguard that signals major ‘unsettlements' in both sending and receiving countries.

tagged opendemocracy immigration sassen by jn ...on 21-JUN-08

Migration policy: from control to governance

In the United States and Europe alike, immigration policy isn't working – and the failure is most evident at the crossing-points of the rich and poor worlds, from the Mexican border to the Canary Islands, says Saskia Sassen.
tagged opendemocracy immigration sassen saskia_sassen by jn ...on 21-JUN-08

A universal harm: making criminals of migrants

The policing of global 'people flow' criminalises migrants and thus feeds the business of human trafficking. An extreme version of this trend is the experience of women, mostly from Asia and the former Soviet Union, trapped into sex slavery and prostitution. The safe lives and civil rights of people in the rich countries of the north cannot remain untouched by the enormous damage caused by such inhumane and unsustainable processes. There must be a better way.

tagged immigration opendemocracy saskia_sassen sassen by jn ...on 21-JUN-08
Search Franklin for Penn Libraries copies of Saskia Sassen's 2006 Princeton University Press book.
tagged dcc_immigration_sassen by olson ...on 19-OCT-07
tagged sociology by jn ...on 13-MAR-06