Migrants and Refugees in the 21st Century: Children in and out of schools

UCLA (USA) and Pontifical Academy of Sciences, Vatican

Marcelo Suárez-Orozco is the inaugural UCLA Wasserman Dean of UCLA’s Graduate School of Education & Information Studies. His research focuses on cultural psychology and psychological anthropology, with an emphasis on migration, globalization, and education. His award-winning books have been published by Harvard University Press, Stanford University Press, University of California Press, Cambridge University Press, New York University Press, and others. His scholarly papers, in a range of disciplines and languages, appear in journals including Harvard Business Review, Harvard Educational Review, Revue Française de Pédagogie (Paris), Cultuur en Migratie (Leuven), Temas: Cultura, Ideologia y Sociedad (Havana), Ethos, The Journal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Harvard Policy Review, and others. He regularly contributes to national and international media outlets including The New York Times, The Economist, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, Time, Newsweek, U.S News and World Report, The Huffington Post, CNN, NPR, CNN Español, MSNBC, and many others. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Governance and Trust Board, the National Academy of Education, a Trustee of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, and recipient of Mexican Order of the Aztec Eagle, Dean Suárez-Orozco has served as Special Advisor to the Chief Prosecutor, The International Criminal Court, The Hague, The Netherlands. At Harvard, he served as the Victor S. Thomas Professor of Education and Culture, Co-Founder and Co-Director of the Harvard Immigration Projects, and founding Member of the Executive Committee of the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies. At NYU he served as the inaugural Courtney Sale Ross University Professor of Globalization and Education. Dean Suárez-Orozco has held fellowships at Stanford's Center for Advanced Study and Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study. He has been Visiting Professor at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS, Paris), the University of Barcelona, Catholic University of Leuven and has lectured at the German Foreign Office, the Mexican Foreign Office, the Spanish Foreign Office, The Vatican, US Congress, the UN, and Davos, and others. An immigrant from Argentina he is product of the California Master plan having studied in Community College and at the UC Berkeley where he received his A.B (Psychology), M.A. and Ph. D. (Anthropology, 1986). In January of 2018 His Holiness Pope Francis appointed Dean Suárez-Orozco to the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences and on July 4th, 2018 he was named 'A Great Immigrant/Great American' by the Carnegie Corporation of New York.