the global city: new york, london, and tokyo

Artist Hilary Koob-Sassen is her son from her first marriage. She is married to sociologist Richard Sennett. Saskia Sassen spent part of her youth in Italy and says she was 'brought up in five languages.' This association caused her and her mother to leave Argentina while she was still a child. In the 1950s, Willem Sassen was close to Adolf Eichmann when both were living in Argentina, and she recalls him visiting her childhood home. Her father was a Dutch collaborator with the Nazis, a Nazi journalist, and a member of the Waffen-SS. In 1948, Sassen's parents, Willem Sassen and Miep van der Voort, moved to Argentina and the family lived in Buenos Aires. Sassen was born in The Hague, Netherlands in 1947.

The term global city was coined and popularized by Sassen in her 1991 work, The Global City: New York, London, Tokyo. She is a professor of sociology at Columbia University in New York City, and the London School of Economics.

Saskia Sassen (born January 5, 1947) is a Dutch-American sociologist noted for her analyses of globalization and international human migration. political economy: the case of Blacks and Chicanos (1974) Non-dominant ethnic populations as a possible component of the U.S. Studies of globalization, world cities, and international migrationĬolumbia University, London School of Economics

The global city: new york, london, and tokyo