Saskia Sassen (lahir 5 Januari 1947) adalah sosiolog Belanda-Amerika yang dikenal karena analisisnya tentang globalisasi dan migrasi manusia internasional. Ia menjabat sebagai Dosen Sosiologi Robert S. Lynd di Universitas Columbia dan dosen tamu di London School of Economics. Sassen adalah pencipta istilah kota global. Ia merupakan istri dari sosiolog Richard Sennett.

Kehidupan 
Sassen dibesarkan di Buenos Aires, Argentina. Orang tuanya, Willem Sassen dan Miep van der Voort pindah ke Buenos Aires pada tahun 1950. Ia juga menghabiskan sebagian masa mudanya di Italia. Ia mengatakan bahwa dirinya "dibesarkan dalam lima bahasa."

Karya

Buku 
 The Global City: New York, London, Tokyo (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1991) 1st ed. ISBN 0-691-07063-6.
 The Mobility of Labor and Capital. A Study in International Investment and Labor Flow (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988) ISBN 0-521-38672-1.
 Cities in a world economy (Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Pine Forge Press, 2011) updated 4th ed., original 1994; Series: Sociology for a new century, ISBN 1-4129-3680-2.
 Losing control? Sovereignty in An Age of Globalization (New York: Columbia University Press, 1996) Series: University seminars — Leonard Hastings Schoff memorial lectures, ISBN 0-231-10608-4.
 Globalization and its discontents. Essays on the New Mobility of People and Money (New York: New Press, 1998), ISBN 1-56584-518-8.
 Guests and aliens (New York: New Press, 1999) ISBN 1-56584-608-7.
 The global city: New York, London, Tokyo (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2001) updated 2d ed., original 1991; ISBN 0-691-07063-6.
 Territory, Authority, Rights: From Medieval to Global Assemblages (Princeton: Princeton University Press, May 2006) ISBN 0-691-09538-8. Awards for TAR: Winner of the 2007, Distinguished Book Award, Political Economy of the World-System Section, by ASA; Winner of the 2007 Robert Jervis and Paul Schroeder Best Book Award, International History and Politics section, by APSA
 Elements for a Sociology of Globalization [or A Sociology of Globalization] (W.W. Norton, 2007) ISBN 0-393-92726-1.
 Expulsions: Brutality and Complexity in the Global Economy (Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press, 2014).

Suntingan buku 
 Global networks, linked cities, ed. Saskia Sassen (New York: Routledge, 2002) ISBN 0-415-93162-2, ISBN 0-415-93163-0.
 Digital Formations: IT and New Architectures in the Global Realm, eds. Robert Latham and Saskia Sassen (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005) ISBN 0-691-11986-4, ISBN 0-691-11987-2.
 "Deciphering the Global: Its Scales, Spaces and Subjects." (New York: Routledge, 2007).

Bab buku 
 "Mediating practices: women with/in cyberspace", in eds. John Armitage and Joanne Roberts, Living with cyberspace: technology & society in the 21st century (London: Athlone ; New York: Continuum, 2002) viii, 203 p., ISBN 0-485-00444-5, ISBN 0-485-00636-7, ISBN 0-8264-6035-6, ISBN 0-8264-6036-4.
 "Beyond sovereignty: de facto transnationalism in immigration policy", in eds. Friedmann, Jonathan and Randeria, Shalini, Worlds on the move: globalization, migration, and cultural security (London ; New York: Tauris 2004) xix, 372 p., 24 см, Series: Toda institute book series on global peace and policy 6, ISBN 1-86064-951-3.
 "Electronic markets and activist networks: The weight of social logics in digital formations", in Digital Formations: IT and New Architectures in the Global Realm, eds. Robert Latham and Saskia Sassen (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005) ISBN 0-691-11986-4, ISBN 0-691-11987-2, p. 54-88.
 "When Places Have Deep Economic Histories", in eds. Goldsmith, Stephen and Elizabeth, Lynne, What We See: Advancing the Observations of Jane Jacobs (Oakland, CA: New Village Press 2010) pp 263 – 275, ISBN 978-0-9815593-1-5.

Artikel 
 "How Population Lies: True, big cities no longer draw big numbers. But that doesn't mean their power is slipping too.", Newsweek International, July 3–10, 2006.
 "Migration policy: from control to governance: In the United States and Europe alike, immigration policy isn't working -- and the failure is most evident at the crossing-points of the rich and poor worlds, from the Mexican border to the Canary Islands.", Open Democracy (July 13, 2006).
 "The repositioning of citizenship and alienage: Emergent subjects and spaces for politics", Globalizations, volume 2, number 1, (2005), p. 79-94.
 "Regulating Immigration in a Global Age: A New Policy Landscape", Parallax, volume 11, number 1 (2005), p. 35-45.
 "Comment: We seem to have forgotten history", The Guardian (February 26, 2004).
 "Going Beyond the National State in the USA: The Politics of Minoritized Groups in Global Cities", Diogenes, volume 51, number 3 (2004), p. 59-65.
 "The new lords of Africa", in The Guardian July 9, 2003; ; also in Peacework, volume 30, number 338, September 2003, p20-21 , ISSN 0748-0725.
 ""A message from the global south," (Special report: Terrorism in the US), The Guardian (September 12, 2001).
 "Special report: refugees in Britain — Unstoppable immigrants", in The Guardian (September 12, 2000).
 "Home truths: The notion that the west is threatened with mass invasions of immigrants is a myth," (Refugees in Britain: special report), The Guardian (Saturday April 15, 2000).
 "Women's burden: counter-geographies of globalization and the feminization of survival", Journal of international affairs, [New York], volume 53, number 2, p. 504-524 (2000), ISSN 0022-197X.
 Cities: between global actors and local conditions (College Park, MD.: Urban Studies and Planning Program, University of Maryland, c1999) "The 1997 Lefrak monograph".
 "Beyond Sovereignty: De-Facto Transnationalism in Immigration Policy", in European Journal of Migration and Law, volume 1, p. 177-198, 1999; also published as The De-facto Transnationalizing of Immigration Policy (Florence: Robert Schuman Centre at the European University Institute, 1996).
 "Global financial centers", in Foreign affairs, [New York], volume 78, number 1, p. 75-87 (1999), ISSN 0015-7120.
 The De-facto Transnationalizing of Immigration Policy (Florence: Robert Schuman Centre at the European University Institute, 1996); [also published as "Beyond Sovereignty: De-Facto Transnationalism in Immigration Policy", in European Journal of Migration and Law, volume 1, 1999, p. 177-198.]
 Transnational economies and national migration policies (Amsterdam: Institute for Migration and Ethnic Studies, University of Amsterdam, 1996), ISBN 90-5589-038-3.
 "Analytic borderlands: race, gender and representation in the new city", in ed. King, Anthony D., Re-presenting the city: ethnicity, capital, and culture in the 21st-century metropolis (New York: New York University Press, 1996) p. 183-202, ISBN 0-8147-4678-0, ISBN 0-8147-4679-9.
 [with Morita, Kiriro], "The New illegal immigration in Japan 1980-1992", in The international migration review (New York: Center for Migration Studies, 1994), volume 28, number 1, p. 153-163, ISSN 0197-9183.
 [with Smith, Robert] Post-industrial employment and third world immigration: casualization and the New Mexican migration in New York (New York, N.Y.: Columbia University, Institute of Latin American and Iberian Studies, 1991) Series: Papers on Latin America #26.
 New York City's informal economy (Los Angeles, Calif.: University of California Los Angeles, Institute for Social Science Research, [1988?]) Series: ISSR working papers in the social sciences, 1988–89, volume 4, number 9.

Disertasi 
 [as Sassen-Koob, Saskia] Non-dominant ethnic populations as a possible component of the U.S. political economy: the case of blacks and Chicanos (Dissertation, Ph.D., University of Notre Dame, 1974).
 [as Sassen-Koob, Saskia] Social stratification, ethnicity and ideology: Anglos and Chicanos in the United States (Thesis, M.A., University of Notre Dame, 1971).

Wawancara 
 "OSU//The Interviews//Saskia Sassen", "Open Source Urbanism, November 8, 2013.
 "Saskia Sassen: <\< Los sin poder pueden hacer historia sin tomar el poder >\>", interview with Noemi Lopez Trujillo, Gonzoo, May 18, 2013.
 "Ciudad y frontera", interview, Arquine, April 18, 2013.
 "The Global Street or the Democracy of the Powerless", interview with Lukasz Pawlowski, Kultura Liberalna, February 20, 2012.
 A Theory Talk with Saskia Sassen, Theory Talks, September 6, 2011
 "The ideas interview: Saskia Sassen -- John Sutherland meets a social scientist who argues that we need to understand the full complexities and dangers of globalisation.", The Guardian, July 4, 2006.
 Keynote speaker at 2008 Metropolis Congress  in Sydney October 2008. Sassen will address world mayors and industry leaders with her research on the increasing significance of connected relationships between cities in the 21st Century.
 "Redirected power and capital as forces for change" : Keynote speaker at the 2nd International Holcim Forum for Sustainable Construction – "Urban_Trans_Formation" (Tongji University, Shanghai – April 18–21, 2007), 2nd Day: Friday, April 20, 2007 .

Penghargaan 
 Bulan Januari 2004, Sassen mendapat gelar honoris causa dalam bidang urbanisme dari Delft University of Technology.
 Tahun 2013, ia dianugerahi Prince of Asturias Award di bidang ilmu sosial.
 Tahun 2014, ia mendapat gelar honoris causa dari Universidad de Murcia (Spanyol) dan École Normale Supérieure (Paris).

Referensi

Pranala luar 

 Personal Website 
 Sassen's page at the London School of Economics 
 Member Profile, Committee on Global Thought at Columbia University 
 The Transnationalism Project, University of Chicago
 Downloadable PDFs of Sassen's papers at the University of Chicago's Transnationalism project website
 Globalization & World Cities, site at Loughborough University UK, founded by Peter Hall, Sassen, and Nigel Thrift
 Guantánamo in Germany (with Richard Sennett) in The Guardian, 21 August 2007 (concerning arrest of German sociologist charged of being "mastermind" of the Militante Gruppe)
 2008 Metropolis Congress Sydney 
 Saskia on divulge , Saskia Sassen at Unbound
 "Comment: We seem to have forgotten history", The Guardian, February 26, 2004.
 "Special report: Terrorism in the US — A message from the global south", in The Guardian, September 12, 2001.
 "Special report: refugees in Britain — Unstoppable immigrants", in The Guardian, September 12, 2000.

Kelahiran 1949
Akademisi London School of Economics
Sosiolog Amerika Serikat
Tokoh dari Den Haag
Sosiolog wanita
Penulis tentang globalisasi