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Co-director of Immigration Studies at New York University
Abstract
In today's world, there is a migratory movement that is without precedent for humankind, with some 185-200 million transnational immigrants, without taking into account internal migratory dynamics. In the United States, for example, more than a million immigrants have arrived each year since 1990.
Immigration transforms host countries, and some more than others. It is not the same to have a history and tradition of receiving immigration (as is the case in the United States, Canada or Australia) and not having one (as is the case in Spain).
In terms of education, immigration has a clear effect on the school careers of pupils, as we come across different problems that have a great effect on these children: problems with the language, interruptions in their schooling, problems for the parents, a lack of a culture of schooling, different cultural models or parents' loss of authority.
Keywordsimmigration, schooling, transnational, foreigners, education
Marcelo M. Suárez-Orozco is the Courtney Sale Ross University Professor of Globalisation and Education and Co-director of Immigration Studies at New York University. His research is on conceptual and empirical problems in the areas of cultural psychology and psychological anthropology with a focus on the study of immigration, globalisation and education.
He is author of numerous scholarly essays, books, and edited volumes including: <i>The New Immigration: An Interdisciplinary Reader</i> (co-edited with Carola Suárez-Orozco and Desiree Qin-Hilliard, Routledge, 2005), <i>Globalization: Culture and Education in the New Millennium</i> (co-edited with Desirée Qin-Hilliard, University of California Press, 2004), <i>Latinos: Remaking America</i> (co-edited with Mariela Paez, University of California Press, 2002), the six-volume <i>Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the New Immigration</i> (co-edited with Carola Suárez-Orozco and Desiree Qin-Hilliard, Routledge, 2001), and <i>Children of Immigration</i> (co-authored with Carola Suárez-Orozco, Harvard University Press, 2001).
He has received numerous honours and awards, including the Orden Mexicana del Águila Azteca (the Mexican Order of the Aztec Eagle), the highest award given by the Mexican government. In 2004, he was elected to the U.S. National Academy of Education.
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