During the 1980s and 1990s, Sassen emerged as a prolific author in urban sociology. She studied the impacts of globalisation such as economic restructuring, and how the movements of labour and capital influence urban life. She also studied the influence of communication technology on governance. Sassen observed how nation states begin to lose power to control these developments, and she studied increasing general transnationalism, including transnational human migration. She identified and described the phenomenon of the global city. Her 1991 book bearing this title made her a widely quoted author on globalisation. An updated edition of her book was published in 2001. In the early 2000s, Sassen focused on immigration and globalization, with her "denationalization" and "transnationalism" projects (see Bibliography and External Links, below). Her books have been translated into 21 languages.[2]
Committee on Italian, European and International Criminal Procedure – Ibrerojur.[3]
Sassen was born in The Hague, Netherlands in 1947. In 1948, Sassen's parents, Willem Sassen and Miep van der Voort, moved to Argentina and the family lived in Buenos Aires.[4] Her father was a Dutch collaborator with the Nazis, a Nazi journalist, and a member of the Waffen-SS. In the 1950s, Willem Sassen was close to Adolf Eichmann when both were living in Argentina, and she recalls him visiting her childhood home.[5] This association caused her and her mother to leave Argentina while she was still a child. Saskia Sassen spent part of her youth in Italy and says she was "brought up in five languages."[6]
Sassen's 1991 book The Global City charts how New York, along with London and Tokyo, became the most important cities in the global economy.
The Global City: New York, London, Tokyo (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2001) 2nd ed., original 1991;ISBN0-691-07063-6.
The Mobility of Labor and Capital. A Study in International Investment and Labor Flow (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988) ISBN0-521-38672-1.
Cities in a World Economy (Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Pine Forge Press, 2018) updated 5th ed., original 1994; Series: Sociology for a new century, ISBN1-4129-3680-2.
Losing control? Sovereignty in An Age of Globalization (New York: Columbia University Press, 1996) Series: University seminars — Leonard Hastings Schoff memorial lectures, ISBN0-231-10608-4.
Globalization and its discontents. Essays on the New Mobility of People and Money (New York: New Press, 1998), ISBN1-56584-518-8.
The global city: New York, London, Tokyo (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2001) updated 2d ed., original 1991; ISBN0-691-07063-6.
Territory, Authority, Rights: From Medieval to Global Assemblages (Princeton: Princeton University Press, May 2006) ISBN0-691-09538-8. Awards for TAR: Winner of the 2007, Distinguished Book Award, Political Economy of the World-System Section, by ASA; Winner of the 2007 Robert Jervis and Paul Schroeder Best Book Award, International History and Politics section, by APSA
Elements for a Sociology of Globalization [or A Sociology of Globalization] (W.W. Norton, 2007) ISBN0-393-92726-1.
Digital Formations: IT and New Architectures in the Global Realm, eds. Robert Latham and Saskia Sassen (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005) ISBN0-691-11986-4, ISBN0-691-11987-2.
Deciphering the Global: Its Scales, Spaces and Subjects (New York: Routledge, 2007).
"Mediating practices: women with/in cyberspace", in eds. John Armitage and Joanne Roberts, Living with cyberspace: technology & society in the 21st century (London: Athlone; New York: Continuum, 2002) viii, 203 p., ISBN0-485-00444-5, ISBN0-485-00636-7, ISBN0-8264-6035-6, ISBN0-8264-6036-4.
"Beyond sovereignty: de facto transnationalism in immigration policy", in eds. Friedmann, Jonathan and Randeria, Shalini, Worlds on the move: globalization, migration, and cultural security (London; New York: Tauris 2004) xix, 372 p., 24 см, Series: Toda institute book series on global peace and policy 6, ISBN1-86064-951-3.
"Electronic markets and activist networks: The weight of social logics in digital formations", in Digital Formations: IT and New Architectures in the Global Realm, eds. Robert Latham and Saskia Sassen (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005) ISBN0-691-11986-4, ISBN0-691-11987-2, p.54-88.
"When Places Have Deep Economic Histories", in eds. Goldsmith, Stephen and Elizabeth, Lynne, What We See: Advancing the Observations of Jane Jacobs (Oakland, CA: New Village Press 2010) pp 263 – 275, ISBN978-0-9815593-1-5.
"Women's burden: counter-geographies of globalization and the feminization of survival", Journal of international affairs, [New York], volume 53, number 2, p.504-524 (2000), ISSN 0022-197X.
Cities: between global actors and local conditions (College Park, MD.: Urban Studies and Planning Program, University of Maryland, c1999) "The 1997 Lefrak monograph".
"Beyond Sovereignty: De-Facto Transnationalism in Immigration Policy", in European Journal of Migration and Law, volume 1, p.177-198, 1999; also published as The De-facto Transnationalizing of Immigration Policy (Florence: Robert Schuman Centre at the European University Institute, 1996).
"Global financial centers", in Foreign affairs, [New York], volume 78, number 1, p.75-87 (1999), ISSN 0015-7120.
The De-facto Transnationalizing of Immigration Policy (Florence: Robert Schuman Centre at the European University Institute, 1996); [also published as "Beyond Sovereignty: De-Facto Transnationalism in Immigration Policy", in European Journal of Migration and Law, volume 1, 1999, p.177-198.]
Transnational economies and national migration policies (Amsterdam: Institute for Migration and Ethnic Studies, University of Amsterdam, 1996), ISBN90-5589-038-3.
"Analytic borderlands: race, gender and representation in the new city", in ed. King, Anthony D., Re-presenting the city: ethnicity, capital, and culture in the 21st-century metropolis (New York: New York University Press, 1996) p.183-202, ISBN0-8147-4678-0, ISBN0-8147-4679-9.
[with Morita, Kiriro], "The New illegal immigration in Japan 1980-1992", in The international migration review (New York: Center for Migration Studies, 1994), volume 28, number 1, p.153-163, ISSN 0197-9183.
[with Smith, Robert] Post-industrial employment and third world immigration: casualization and the New Mexican migration in New York (New York, N.Y.: Columbia University, Institute of Latin American and Iberian Studies, 1991) Series: Papers on Latin America #26.
New York City's informal economy (Los Angeles, Calif.: University of California Los Angeles, Institute for Social Science Research, [1988?]) Series: ISSR working papers in the social sciences, 1988–89, volume 4, number 9.
Dissertations
[as Sassen-Koob, Saskia] Non-dominant ethnic populations as a possible component of the U.S. political economy: the case of blacks and Chicanos (Dissertation, Ph.D., University of Notre Dame, 1974).
[as Sassen-Koob, Saskia] Social stratification, ethnicity and ideology: Anglos and Chicanos in the United States (Thesis, M.A., University of Notre Dame, 1971).
Joost Panhuysen (15 January 2004). "Wroeten in de mondiale stad"[Rooting in the global city]. Tu Delta (in Dutch). Technishe Universiteit Delft. Retrieved 30 November 2012.
Guantánamo in Germany (with Richard Sennett) in The Guardian, 21 August 2007 (concerning arrest of German sociologist charged of being "mastermind" of the Militante Gruppe)