global cities and survival circuits sassen summary

The article identifies two gaps in the literature: Missing migration in the global Sydney discourse, and failure to address the interplay between global Sydney and migration. Concerning migration, it addresses its increased scale and complexity, spatial settlement and movement, and social polarization and spatial inequality. Concerning global Sydney, it addresses Sydney’s rise as a global city and the economic, social, and spatial transformations.

It is a comprehensive literature review on the global Sydney discourse and migration in global Sydney. The findings are useful to better understand migrant knowledge workers in global Sydney, and to contribute to the global city discourse and knowledge city research.Īddressing the critique that the global city discourse should tackle the important issue of migration, this article utilizes Sydney as a case study to substantiate and advance the debates. Using data from the 2011 Australian Census and a community survey in the Sydney region, this study reveals new insights into the different patterns between international and internal migrant knowledge workers in terms of social-economic backgrounds, drivers for moving to Sydney, and employment before and in Sydney. The focus is on migrant knowledge workers employed in the knowledge-intensive industries and highly skilled occupations, which are the most reflective of Sydney’s knowledge capacity. This study aims to bridge the theses of global Sydney and migration. Sydney’s emergence as a global city has been inseparable from its migrants from overseas and elsewhere in Australia. The global Sydney thesis has focused on Sydney’s performances in the knowledge-based economy, especially the advanced producer services, in an increasingly integrated world economy. Global Sydney is essentially a knowledge city.

Global cities and survival circuits sassen summary