Undocumented Students and the DREAM Act

Marcelo M. Suárez-Orozco is the author of the foreword to Young Lives on Hold: The College Dreams of Undocumented Students. 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, globalization and education. He is author of numerous scholarly essays, books, and edited volumes including, Learning in the Global Era: International Perspectives on Globalization and Education (edited, Berkeley, CA and New York, NY: University of California Press and Ross Institute, 2007), The New Immigration: An Interdisciplinary Reader (co-edited with Carola Suárez-Orozco and Desiree Qin, Routledge, 2005), Globalization: Culture and Education in the New Millennium (co-edited with Desirée Qin-Hilliard, University of California Press, 2004), Latinos: Remaking America (co-edited with Mariela Paez, University of California Press, 2002), the six-volume Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the New Immigration (co-edited with Carola Suárez-Orozco and Desiree Qin-Hilliard, Routledge, 2001), Children of Immigration (co-authored with Carola Suárez-Orozco, Harvard University Press, 2001), Cultures Under Siege: Collective Violence and Trauma (co-edited with Antonius C.G.M. Robben, Cambridge University Press, 2000), the award winning Transformations: Immigration, Family Life, and Achievement Motivation Among Latino Adolescents (co-authored with Carola Suárez-Orozco, Stanford University Press, 1995), many other books and volumes and more than 100 scholarly papers appearing in such international journals as Harvard International Review, Ethos, International Migration (Geneva), Anthropology and Education Quarterly, Revue Française de Pédagogie (Paris), Harvard Educational Review, Cultuur en Migratie (Leuven), Daedalus, The Journal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Harvard Law & Policy Review, Temas: Cultura, Ideología y Sociedad, and others.

Professor Suárez-Orozco, the former Victor S. Thomas Professor of Education and Culture at Harvard, co-founded the Harvard Immigration Projects with Carola Suárez-Orozco in 1997 where they co-directed the largest study ever funded in the history of the National Science Foundation's Cultural Anthropology division-a study of Asian, Afro-Caribbean, and Latino immigrant youth in American society. The book reporting the results of this landmark study, Learning a New Land: Immigrant Students in American Society (C. Suárez-Orozco, M. Suárez-Orozco, and I. Todorova) was published by the Harvard University Press in 2008.

Professor Suárez-Orozco lectures widely throughout the world. In 2007 and in 2005, he was invited to deliver keynote lectures on Global Migration and Education at the Pontifical Academy of Sciences and the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences at the Casina Pio IV, Vatican City. Also in the Spring of 2007 he presented at the Atman Foundation´s Debate on International Migration in Madrid with P. M. Felipe Gonzalez, P. M. Dominique de Villepin, and others. In the summer of 2005, he was invited to lead the discussions on Education and Globalization at the 25th Anniversary Tällberg Forum in Sweden with Her Majesty Queen Silvia in attendance. In the Spring of 2005, under the auspices of The Bank of Sweden Tercentenary Foundation (Riksbankens Jubileumsfond, RJ) and the City of Stockholm, Professor Suárez-Orozco convened the First International Conference on Globalization and Learning in Sweden. Also in the Spring of 2005, he was invited to address the topic of global migration at the United Nations Secretary General’s First Annual Global Colloquium of University Presidents convened by Kofi Annan. In the summer of 2004 (and again in the Winter of 2006) he was invited by the Mexican Secretary of State to deliver keynote addresses on Globalization, Immigration, and Education in Mexico City. In the summer of 2003, the US Embassy in Germany arranged a lecture tour with major presentations on global migration to German academics and senior policy makers in Berlin, Hamburg, Düsseldorf, Wiesbaden, and Munich. In 1995 and again in 1997, he was elected Directeur d'Etudes Associe at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris. In 1996, he delivered the Norbert Elias Lecture at the Amsterdam School for Social Sciences in the Netherlands. He has been Visiting Professor of Psychology at the University of Barcelona (Spain), Visiting Professor of Anthropology at the Catholic University of Leuven (Belgium), and Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford. Professor Suárez-Orozco was educated in Argentina and at the University of California, Berkeley where he received his A.B. (Psychology, 1980), M.A. (Anthropology, 1981) and Ph. D. (Anthropology, 1986).

Marcelo Suárez-Orozco is married to Carola Suárez-Orozco, a cultural psychologist and Professor of Applied Psychology at the Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development, New York University. Marcelo M. Suárez-Orozco, winner of multiple honors and awards, including most recently the Orden Mexicana del Águila Azteca (the Mexican Order of the Aztec Eagle), the highest award given by the Mexican government on behalf of the Mexican people to a foreign national for outstanding contributions to the understanding of Mexico. In 2004 he was elected to the National Academy of Education. In September 2004, Professor Suárez-Orozco was appointed the first Courtney Sale Ross University Professor of Globalization and Education at New York University (faculty home page) where he also is Co-Director of Immigration Studies @ NYU and Co-Director of the Institute for Globalization and Education in Metropolitan Settings, IGEMS.