In this empirical study, Saskia Sassen offers a fresh understanding of the processes of
international migration. Focusing on immigration into the US from 1960 to 1985 and the part …

In the great cities of Latin America and Asia, international business and local firms meet and,
in particular, influence teh development strategies of Third World countries. The authors of …

Initially published in 1981, this book examines the problems of housing provision for the
urban poor in developing countries, within the context of the development process as a …

Circulation is common in Third World countries and involves reciprocal flows of people,
goods and ideas. The essays in this volume, first published in1985, discuss concepts …

This essay develops recent studies on international labor migrations. The first part analyzes
the condition for the emergence of migrations as a labor system: the consolidation of the …

Quantitative, cross-national studies of peripheral urbanization have been rooted in human
ecology or political economy. Studies in the human ecology tradition cite rural adversity as a …

First published in 1984, this title discusses the emergence of both the orthodox and political
economy based approaches to underdevelopment in geography, critically assessing their …

In Asia, there are a growing number of gigantic megacities, accompanied by a series of
speculative and extravagant megaprojects. Amid the fast-paced urban and development …

The author provides a treatment of world economic geography as a whole. He sets out the
historical context of the modern world along with the principal philosophies that have …

This chapter is concerned with contemporary mobility of population as reflected in
population censuses and surveys reaching back into the 1950s. The discussion is divided …