re:publica 2016 - Saskia Sassen: What is behind the new Migrations: A Massive Loss of Habitat

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The language of “migrants” and “refugees” is insufficient to cover a new type of migration. They are being expelled from their land and homes by major coporations grabbing land to develop plantations, the sharp expansion in mining due to the demands of the electronic revolution, climate change, the explosion in the building of new, often private, “cities” and office parks.
Saskia Sassen
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I think the rise in this third category of migrants is also symptomatic of overall sociotechnological complexity meeting the limits of scale and resources. Habitat loss is happening in the West on an everyday cultural level as well.