#  Prof. Carola Suarez-Orozco 

Professor in Residence

 

 

 



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Carola Suárez-Orozco is a professor in residence at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and the director of the [Immigration Initiative at Harvard](https://immigrationinitiative.harvard.edu/).

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 academic engagement and achievement, 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*](https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674008380)*,* [*Learning a New Land,*](https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674045804) [*Transitions: The Development of the Children of Immigrants*](https://nyupress.org/9780814770177/transitions/)*,* [*Education: Our Global Compact in a Time of Crisis*](http://cup.columbia.edu/book/education/9780231204354), as well as [*Immigrant-Origin Students in Community College: Navigating Risk and Reward in Higher Education*](https://www.tcpress.com/immigrant-origin-students-in-community-college-9780807761946) among others.

She has been awarded an American Psychological Association Presidential Citation for her contributions to the understanding of cultural psychology of immigration. She is also the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and is a member of both the National Academy of Education and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.



 

 

 





 

 

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