Saskia SassenThinkers

A Global city is a strategic site for the management of the global economy and the production of the most advanced services and financial operations.

A Global economy is the location of transnational spaces within national territories.

Immigration is the mass product of individual mobility, requiring the creation of institutional ties linking sending and receiving areas.

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Savage sorting is the sorting of who will matter and be counted in economic indicators, and who will not and be sentenced to live at what can be called 'the systemic edge.'

A Transnational urban system is a system wherein cities are crucial nodes for the international coordination and servicing of firms, markets, and even whole economies that are increasingly transnational.