Guests and Aliens

In this book, one of the world´ s leading experts of globalization presents a comprehensive analysis of worldwide immigration. Establishing the current "crisis" of immigration in a historiacal context for the first time, Sassen puts the American experience into perspective as one phase of a global history of border-crossing. Using diverses examples, Sassen explores the cauises of immigration thhat have resulted in nations´ either welcominmg new arrivals as "guests" or disparaging them as "aliens".