The Immigration Initiative at Harvard serves as a place of convening for scholars, students, policy makers, community leaders, and practitioners working on topics related to understanding and serving this population.
Director
Carola Suárez-Orozco
Director
Professor in Residence, Harvard Graduate School of Education
carola_suarezorozco@gse.harvard.edu Profile
Director
Professor in Residence, Harvard Graduate School of Education
carola_suarezorozco@gse.harvard.edu Profile
Carola Suárez-Orozco is a Professor in Residence at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and the Director of the Immigration Initiative at Harvard. She is also the co-founder of Re-Imagining Migration
Using mixed-methodological strategies, her work focuses on elucidating the child, adolescent, and young adult experience of immigration—how is their development shaped by immigration and how are they changed by the process? She has studied a wide variety of processes including identity formation, family separations, civic engagement, and the unauthorized experience. A focus on school settings has been an essential and enduring theme in her basic research agenda as schools are a first contact point between the immigrant children, their families, and the new society.
Her books include: Children of Immigration (Harvard University Press), Learning a New Land (Harvard University Press), Transitions: The Development of the Children of Immigrants (New York University Press), Education: Our Global Compact in a Time of Crisis (Columbia University Press), as well as Immigrant-Origin Students in Community College (Teachers’ College Press) among others.
She has been awarded an American Psychological Association (APA) Presidential Citation for her contributions to the understanding of cultural psychology of immigration, has served as Chair of the APA Presidential Task Force on Immigration, and is a member of the National Academy of Education.
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