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From medieval to global assemblages 2008 and expulsions. Saskia sassens research and writing focuses on globalization including social, economic and political dimensions, immigration, global cities including cities and terrorism, the new networked technologies, and changes within the liberal state that result from current transnational conditions. Princeton university press, 2005 isbn 0691119864, isbn 0691119872. Massive and parallel changes have occurred in new york city since the late 1970s and in london and tokyo since the early 1980s.
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