Saskia Sassen

Saskia Sassen

78 (1947-01-05)
The Hague, Netherlands

Saskia Sassen is a Dutch sociologist specializing in globalization and human migration.

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Push 2019 (8)

Housing prices are skyrocketing in cities around the world. Incomes are not. PUSH sheds light on a new kind of faceless landlord, our increasingly unliveable cities and an escalating crisis that has an effect on us all. This is not gentrification, it’s a different kind of monster.The film follows Leilani Farha, the UN Special Rapporteur on Adequate Housing, as she’s travelling the globe, trying to understand who’s being pushed out of the city and why. “I believe there’s a huge difference between housing as a commodity and gold as a commodity. Gold is not a human right, housing is,” says Leilani.
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N/A N/A (5.2)

After the World War II, architect of the Final Solution, Adolf Eichmann, fled to Argentina. While in hiding, he did a series of taped interviews detailing his role in Nazi atrocities. Now, for the first time ever we can hear The Devil's Confession!
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The Possibility of Hope 2007 (5.6)

A look at different matters of the world such as immigration, global warming and capitalism through the eyes of scientists and philosophers.