# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/saskia-sassen
# Generated: 2026-08-14T05:49:11.164Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/saskia-sassen"
name: "Saskia Sassen"
slug: "saskia-sassen"
description: "Saskia Sassen is a Dutch-American sociologist noted for her analyses of globalization and international human migration. She is a professor of sociology at Columbia University in New York City, and the London School of Economics. The term global city was coined and popularized by Sassen in her 1991 work The Global City: New York, London, Tokyo."
tagline: "Dutch-American sociologist"
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country:
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category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1947-01-05"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump