Focusing on the urban impact of economic globalisation, Saskia Sassen detects profound changes in the geography, composition and institutional structure of the global economy (Sassen, 1994: 10). In terms of the new geography, she argues that “compared to the 1950s, the 1980s saw a narrowing ...
2021, Political Geography Citation Excerpt : In recent years, front-end visa application processes are also outsourced by some states to commercial partners that lighten the burden of consular activities (e.g., Bolt, 2020). With different scales and foci, existing empirical research on visa regime...
In essence, a transnational property implies a non-spatial definition of location, a notion modeled after economic geography's positionality. The paper encapsulates these concepts by a measure of globalization at the property level called Transnational Coefficient. It also stresses the need for an ...