Guests and Aliens

by Sassen, Saskia

• ISBN13: 9781565846081
• ISBN10: 1565846087
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-04-01
• Publisher: New Pr

Summary

A penetrating analysis of the history of migration and refugees, from a leading expert in the field. 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 centuries and the international dislocations--particularly after the end of World War II--that have engendered the "refugee" concept. Using these examples, Sassen explores the causes of immigration that have resulted in nations' welcoming incomers as "guests" or disparaging them as "aliens," and outlines an "enlightened approach" (Publishers Weekly) to improving US and European immigration policies.

Author Biography

Saskia Sassen is Professor of Sociology at the University of Chicago.

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
Introduction	xiii
Introduction	1	(6)
1800	7	(26)
After 1848	33	(18)
Nations and Migrations: Germany, France, Italy	51	(26)
The State and the Foreigner	77	(22)
Patterns, Rights, Regulations	99	(34)
Making Immigration Policy Today	133	(26)
Appendix. Tables, Immigrants and Asylum Seekers 1960--1996	159	(12)
Bibliography	171	(26)
Index	197