Marcelo M. Suarez-Orozco
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Marcelo M. Suárez-Orozco, the Courtney Sale Ross University Professor at New York University, is Co-Director of Immigration Studies @ NYU. At Harvard, he was the Victor S. Thomas Professor of Education and Culture. In 1997 he co-founded the Harvard Immigration Projects and co-directed the largest study ever funded in the history of the National Science Foundation's Cultural Anthropology division. He is author of numerous scholarly essays, award-winning books, and edited volumes published by some of the leading scholarly outlets in the world -- including multiple books with Harvard University Press, Stanford University Press, the University of California Press, Cambridge University Press, New York University Press, and numerous scholarly papers appearing in international journals, in a range of disciplines and languages, including Harvard Educational Review, Revue Française de Pédagogie (Paris), Harvard Business Review, Cultuur en Migratie (Leuven), Harvard International Review, Temas: Cultura, Ideologia y Sociedad (Havana), Harvard Policy Review, Ethos, International Migration (Geneva), Anthropology and Education Quarterly, The Journal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Annual Reviews of Anthropology, and others. His joint research with Carola Suárez-Orozco is cited in well over 5000 Google scholar entries.

Blog Entries by Marcelo M. Suarez-Orozco

Memo to Bald Men

Posted August 13, 2011 | 09:59:27 (EST)

The absurdist virus that plagues Washington evokes the Borgean image of two bald men furiously fighting over a comb: anachronistic, irrelevant, and sad.

Washington's absurdist dystopia is in full display in the gridlock over immigration. Latinos should take notice because immigration defines the Latino experience. While Spanish was spoken in...

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Broken System, Broken Families

Posted July 19, 2010 | 18:55:29 (EST)

As we enter the second decade of the 21st century the lives of well over a billion people are shaped by the experience of migration: 214 million as transnational migrants, approximately 740 million as internal migrants, and millions more as immediate relatives left behind.

While mass migration is reshaping economies...

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The Fox

Posted July 16, 2010 | 13:51:17 (EST)

American academia is in mourning and in search of relevance. The economic debacle that has diminished and may demolish the sancta sanctorum of the University -- from Harvard's Faculty of Arts and Sciences to the entire system at the University of California -- is an essential element of this sense...

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Charter Schools Fail Immigrants

Posted September 30, 2009 | 18:10:19 (EST)

Over the course of the last two decades, charter schools have become a ubiquitous feature of the urban educational landscape. Their expansion is poised to continue under the Obama administration. According to the Center for Education Reform, forty states and the District of Columbia have charter school laws, and the...

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