Education professor Carola Suárez-Orozco’s most recent book, “Transitions: The Development of Children and Immigrants” (co-edited with Mona M. Abo-Zena and Amy K. Marks, NYU Press, 2015), has been recognized with the Social Policy Award for Best Edited Book from the Society for Research on Adolescence. Suárez-Orozco is on faculty at the UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies’ division of human development and psychology.
“There was a time, a long time really, when I did this work solely because it inspired me and because I thought it was urgent – not because it was a well-defined or particularly recognized domain of research,” said Suárez-Orozco. “I am all the more touched that this field has come into its own, and am honored this book which brings together the state of the field, is being recognized. It is dedicated to the understanding and better serving all of our children, especially the children of immigrants.”
Suárez-Orozco’s extensive expertise in the study of immigrant families, children, and youth includes the academic trajectories of engagement and performance among immigrant adolescents; societal and self-perception of immigrant children and youth; immigrant family separations; and the effects of unauthorized status on development. She is a co-founder and co-director of the Institute for Immigration, Globalization, and Education at UCLA. A report by the institute on “In the Shadows of the Ivory Tower: Undocumented Undergraduates and the Liminal State of Immigration Reform” was recently cited in an article in The Atlantic on “The Folly of Undereducating the Undocumented.”
