Saskia Sassen

Saskia Sassen is <a href="http://www.sociology.columbia.edu/fac-bios/sassen/faculty.html">professor</a> of sociology at Columbia University, New York, and at the London School of Economics.

Free speech in the frontier-zone

Could it be that what the Danish cartoons conflict has done is to tip a larger process in the making, and in this tipping make that larger process visible? I

By Saskia Sassen

/ 20 Feb 2006

Fear and camouflage: the end of the liberal state?

In the last days of 2005, leading thinkers and scholars from around the world share their fears, hopes and expectations of 2006. Forty-nine of openDemocracy’s distinguished contributors, from Mariano Aguirre to Slavoj Zizek, Neal Ascherson to Jonathan Zittrain – offer their predictions for the com

By Saskia Sassen

/ 22 Dec 2005

A universal harm: making criminals of migrants

It is estimated that more than 2,500 would-be immigrants died trying to enter Europe over the last decade. That is many dead: but not many would-be immigrants for a

By Saskia Sassen

/ 20 Aug 2003