Professor of Human Development and Psychology at the University of California, Los Angeles
About
Carola Suárez-Orozco is a professor of human development and psychology at UCLA and is the co-founder of Re-Imagining Migration (https://reimaginingmigration.org/). Her books include: Children of Immigration (Harvard University Press), Learning a New Land (Harvard University Press), as well as the Transitions: The Development of the Children of Immigrants (NYU Press).
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.
Currently, she is a principle investigator on the Spencer Foundation grant ("Making the Invisible Visible: Systematically Examining Classroom Bias with MET Data) and the Ford Foundation grant ("Bridging the Compassion Gap: Addressing Social Inclusion for Immigrant Origin Children & Youth").
Current Work:
Carola Suárez-Orozco has been and continues to be interested in the ways in which the experience of immigration shapes children and their families. She uses mixed methods strategies in order to examine learning and identity processes. Of late, her work is focused increasingly on classroom bias and bridging the compassion gap especially as this relates to immigrant origin children and youth which now account for over a quarter of the student population.
Research Area Keyword(s):
Immigration, adaptation, learning environments, social bias
