Marcelo Suárez-Orozco

• Ph. D.
• Head of Faculty at University of California, Los Angeles

Globalization has come to define the modern world. Originally venerated as a force that would bring humanity to the peak of its flourishing through economic integration and positive cross-cultural exchange, globalization has deepened economic inequities, driven the dangerous degradation of the environment, and destabilized regions over fights for r...

Our planet is ever more interconnected, miniaturized, and fragile. With the increase in desertification, rising sea levels, erratic weather patterns and climate change, sustainable education becomes an exceedingly important priority the world over. Furthermore, in the age of the “globalization of indifference,” as Pope Francis has taught us, the en...

A survey of immigrant children in the U.S. revealed just how often they hear prejudiced and hateful comments about them and their countries of origin. The authors urge educators to be aware of the prevalence of anti-immigrant rhetoric and respond by ensuring that their classrooms operate with basic ground rules that include empathy, respect for all...

With some 460 languages spoken across the land, the United States has a deep reservoir of linguistic diversity. But our nation's inconsistent language-learning policies and practices present a variety of obstacles for learning English. Understanding and then addressing student needs during the critical transition phase for newcomer students is an i...

There are important lessons to be learned from taking a comparative perspective in considering migration. Comparative examination of immigration experiences provides a way to glean common denominators of adaptation while considering the specificity of sending and receiving contexts and cultures. Equally important is a historical perspective that pr...

This chapter examines the obstacles to the academic performance of immigrant students. It treats the family as the center of immigration; reveals just how dislocating immigration becomes to its form and coherence; shows how school policies and practices undermine the immigrant family in unanticipated ways; and clarifies how the family elements of t...

Mass migration is the human face of globalization. Where immigrant workers are summoned, families and children will follow. The great global migration wave of the past generation has generated a powerful demographic echo. Nearly all the high-income countries of the world are experiencing substantial growth in their immigrant-origin student populati...

Unauthorized immigrants account for approximately one-fourth of all immigrants in the United States, yet they dominate public perceptions and are at the heart of a policy impasse. Caught in the middle are the children of these immigrants-youth who are coming of age and living in the shadows. An estimated 5.5 million children and adolescents are gro...

Bringing nuance, complexity, and clarity to a subject often seen in black and white, Writing Immigration presents a unique interplay of leading scholars and journalists working on the contentious topic of immigration. In a series of powerful essays, the contributors reflect on how they struggle to write about one of the defining issues of our time-...

Immigrant youth and children of immigrants make up a large and increasing share of the nation's population, and over the next few decades they will constitute a significant portion of the U.S. workforce. Robert Teranishi, Carola Suárez-Orozco, and Marcelo Suárez-Orozco argue that increasing their educational attainment, economic productivity, and c...

Immigrant youth are a fast-growing sector of the student population in a large number of countries. They often arrive with optimism and hope in the future and almost universally recognize that schooling is the key to a better tomorrow. Over time however, large numbers of immigrant youth, especially those enrolling in impoverished, segregated, and m...

Schools the world over are being transformed by growing numbers of immigrant-origin children. As schools face the challenge of educating linguistically, culturally, and racially diverse students, globalization imposes yet another set of demands on education. In this article we examine the varied pathways taken by immigrant-origin children. We outli...

This concluding chapter turns to the notion of the “architectures of care” and makes the case for rethinking education in the era of global interdependence. The idea that the goal of education should be to prepare children for global competition is another vestige of twentieth-century thinking. The integration and disintegration of economies and so...

"When I visited the Long Island Ross School I was struck by the way Courtney Ross and her team successfully brought together the elements of an effective school: reflective teachers, innovative curriculum, and student-centered instruction. It is no wonder that the school has been a magnet for some of the most influential education thinkers of our t...

This essay provides an overview of key issues in the recent literature on migration, minority status, and schooling in Europe. It articulates a plea for U.S.-Europe comparisons. By focusing on some emergent themes, including the problem of variability in minority schooling in Europe and the United States, the essay proposes a tentative typology for...

The American Cultural Dialogue and Its Transmission: George and Louise Spindler with Henry Trueba and Melvin D. Williams Interpretive Ethnography and Education: At Home and Abroad Edited by George Spindler and Louise Spindler Education and Cultural Process: Anthropological Approaches Edited by George Spindler

In this essay, Carola Suárez-Orozco and Marcelo Suárez-Orozco address one of the most critical challenges facing President Obama's administration: meeting the educational needs of Latino and other immigrant children in the United States. The authors first provide a brief overview of past policies and agendas that have created a situation in which t...

This book contributes to the nascent body of scholarly research on globalization and education. Its broad scope paints for readers the breadth and depth of globalization's challenge to education and its impact on nations, communities, and individuals. The book is the result of a long-standing intellectual debate and of multiple exchanges that origi...

An international gathering of leading scholars, policymakers, and educators takes on some of the most difficult and controversial issues of our time in this groundbreaking exploration of how globalization is affecting education around the world. The contributors, drawing from innovative research in both the social sciences and the neurosciences, ex...

The world needs young people who are culturally sophisticated and prepared to work in an international environment. During the last century, basic formal education has become an ideal the world over. According to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, higher proportions of people than ever before are completing primary, secondary, or postsecond...

In the first decade of the new millennium, a new cycle of public concern about the benefits and harms of immigration has erupted. The harsh spotlight on undocumented immigration and border controls has blinded us to many important facets of the problem. In this article, we focus on the experience and integration of the children of immigrants. These...

Globalization defines our era. While it has created a great deal of debate in economic, policy, and grassroots circles, many aspects of the phenomenon remain virtual terra incognita. Education is at the heart of this continent of the unknown. This pathbreaking book examines how globalization and large-scale immigration are affecting children and yo...

This book offers an interdisciplinary perspective on who the children of immigrants are, considering historical and contemporary social attitudes, opportunities, and barriers they encounter. It examines the psychosocial experiences of immigration and considers how these factors interact in ways that lead to divergent pathways of adaptation and iden...

At the turn of the millennium, we are witnessing intense new worldwide migration and refugee flows. There are now some 100 million transnational immigrants plus an estimated 30 million refugees displaced from their homelands. These flows are largely structured by the intensification of globalization--a process of economic, social, and cultural tran...

Arguably few social phenomena are likely to impact the future character of American culture and society as much as the ongoing wave of "new immigration". This cross-disciplinary collection brings together 12 essays by scholars of the Mexican immigration to the United States. "Crossings" theorizes aspects of recent Mexican immigration that are new a...

This essay examines California's Proposition 187 as a paradigm of the contradictions engendered by new postnational social formations. On the one hand, most—if not all—advanced postindustrial democracies in Western Europe, the United States, and now even Japan, have developed an “addiction” to easily exploited foreign workers to do the jobs the Jap...

Criticizes California's Proposition 187 and the assertions underlying it, and discusses the implications of this legislation on future society. The article concludes with an outline of the legal hurdles Proposition 187 is facing and the potential consequences of this legislation for California. (GR)

Cet article vise a eclairer trois dimensions de l'experience des immigrants hispaniques aux Etats-Unis a travers une approche qui met en lumiere les ressorts psychologique profonds de leur attitude dans le pays d'accueil. L'auteur presente tout d'abord les conditions tres differentes de l'immigration au sein d'une communaute hispanique assez hetero...

Self in Society A Multilevel, Psychocultural Analysis Internalization and Human Resonance From Empathy to Alienation Sacrifice and the Experience of Power Conflict, Dominance and Exploitation The Sacred and Expressive in Systems of Social Segregation Caste and Gender A Psychocultural Approach to Awe, Purity and Pollution Conflict and Accommodation...

Explores the modal use of 3 defense mechanisms (introjection, denial, projection) during the "dirty war" and post-dirty war years in the Argentine Republic. Discussion focuses on the contention that the system induced by the political terror that flourished in Argentina in the 1970s and early 1980s, like other cultural systems, possessed its own fo...

Hispanics are the fastest growing minority group in the United States. Although research on the educational functioning of Hispanics has gained increasing attention in the last decades, some areas of the Hispanic experience are virtually unknown. This study explores the motivational dynamics of a group of recent arrivals from Central America. The s...

PIP This paper presents an overview of the diversity in character among the various Hispanic-American subgroups. The author compares the following subgroups historically and demographically: Mexican-Americans, Cuban-Americans, Mainland Puerto-Ricans, and "other" Hispanics. As a group, Hispanic-Americans lag far behind the majority population in any...

This chapter explores the treatment of children in the context of the political developments that occurred in the Argentine Republic during the second half of the 1970s.1 In the following pages we analyze the use, abuse and meaning of children during the so called ‘dirty war.’ An aim of the chapter is to identify the socio-atmospheric conditions in...

With over 200 million international migrants, immigration is a phenomenon expanding globally at unprecedented rates, having central implications for education and psychosocial wellbeing. In this paper, using a combination of qualitative and quantitative methods from The Longitudinal Immigrant Student Adaptation Study (L.I.S.A.) we analyze different...

Traducción de: Children of Inmigration Este es un estudio longitudinal sobre niñas y niños inmigrantes y sus familias. El estudio ofrece una visión interdisciplinaria clara de lo que está pasando con estas personas y cómo puede verse afectado su futuro. Describen cómo los chicos y chicas configuran su identidad y qué sucede en su paso por la escuel...