Dr. Marcelo Suárez-Orozco

Dr. Marcelo Suárez-Orozco researches immigration and globalization from two perspectives: the broad trends that impact the society in this unprecedented wave of migration across national boundaries and the resulting individual stories. His research focuses on cultural psychology and psychological anthropology.

Not content to identify and quantify trends and issues, he and his co-researcher, Carola Suárez-Orozco, have also worked around the world to identify the “best practices” for adapting to migration. Taking case studies from various nations, they have compiled information to assist immigrants – and the receiving societies – in easing the transition.

In 1997, along with Carola Suárez-Orozco, he co-founded the Harvard Immigration Project and began to co-direct the largest study ever funded in the history of the National Science Foundation's Cultural Anthropology division – a study of  the lives, dreams, frustrations and ironies of hundreds of newly arrived Asian, Afro-Caribbean, and Latino immigrant youth in American society. The resulting book, Learning in a New Land: Immigrant Students in American Society, won Harvard’s prestigious 2008 Stone Award for Best Book on Education. In Learning in the Global Era, a new anthology, he offers constructive approaches to educate a global generation of youth in a rapidly changing world. Additional books, many of them co-authored, all of them path-breaking, include The New Immigration; Globalization: Culture and Education in the New Millennium; Latinos: Remaking America; Children of Immigration; and the award-winning Transformations: Immigration, Family Life, and Achievement Motivation Among Latino Adolescents.

Forum 2010 is sponsored by the Hendrickson Institute for Ethical Leadership at Saint Mary’s University of Minnesota. Forum 2010 will take place from 3:30-5:00 p.m. on April 28, 2010, at Nicollet Island Pavilion, Minneapolis, Minn.

Hendrickson Forum 2010
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