Conferences
2nd MANCHESTER LECTURE ON ENVIRONMENT AND DEVELOPMENT
IMMIGRANTS AND CITIZENS –
A NEW ARCHITECTURE FOR POLITICAL MEMBERSHIP
Saskia Sassen
Wednesday 9th March 2005
at 3.30pm
Venue: Crawford House Lecture Theatre 1,
University of Manchester
(via ground floor entrance on Oxford Road next to St Peter's Chaplaincy steps)
What happens when we look at the history of immigration for clues about what is a constraint and what is a possibility? Historical demography shows us that all European societies have incorporated foreign immigrant groups and that it has often taken no more than a few generations to turn them into a community that can experience solidarity. Incorporation typically started like an inconceivable possibility. It was often the work of the excluded that led to formalised inclusions, such as expanded rights. Our societies struggled and learned to expand the meaning of the "we". But some of our most admired institutions come out of this history of struggle. Today, when we discuss our constraints and options regarding solidarity and diversity, we seem to have forgotten this history. We now have a passive edge in our stance to integration: we want it ready-made. Have we become consumers of diversity rather than artisans of incorporation?
Saskia Sassen is the Ralph Lewis Professor of Sociology at the University of Chicago and Centennial Visiting Professor at the London School of Economics. A world authority on globalisation, urbanisation, migration, state sovereignty and cognate issues, her books include The Migration of Labour and Capital (Cambridge University Press, 1988), The Global City (Princeton University Press, 1991: revised edition, 2001), Losing Control? (Columbia University Press, 1996), Guests and Aliens (The New Press, 1999), Global Networks, Linked Cities (Routledge 2002) and Socio-Digital Formations (Princeton University Press, 2004). Her latest book is Denationalization : Territory, Authority and Rights in a Global Digital Age (Princeton University Press, 2005). Her books have been translated into fifteen languages and among her many advisory roles she is a Member of the US Council on Foreign Relations, the (US) National Academy of Sciences Panel on Cities and is Chair of the Information Technology and International Cooperation Committee of the (US) Social Science Research Council. She has recently completed a five-year UNESCO project on sustainable human settlement for which she established a network of researchers and activists in over 50 countries.
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