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. 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 to improving US and European immigration policies.'
- ISBN10 1565846087
- ISBN13 9781565846081
- Publish Date 1 June 2000 (first published 30 December 1999)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 26 August 2015
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint The New Press
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback
- Pages 206
- Language English