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Marcelo M. Suárez-Orozco

Bio: Marcelo M. Suárez-Orozco is an academic researcher from University of California, Los Angeles. The author has contributed to research in topics: Immigration & Globalization. The author has an hindex of 30, co-authored 75 publications receiving 6790 citations. Previous affiliations of Marcelo M. Suárez-Orozco include University of California, Berkeley & University of Massachusetts Boston.


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01 Jan 2001
TL;DR: For example, this article found that inconsistent language-learning policies and practices present a variety of obstacles for learning English, especially for the first generation of immigrants. But our nation's inconsistent language learning policies and practice present a great deal of obstacles to newcomers.
Abstract: With some 460 languages spoken across the land, the United States has a deep reservoir of linguistic diversity. But our nation’s inconsistent language-learning policies and practices present a variety of obstacles for learning English. Understanding and then addressing student needs during the critical transition phase for newcomer students is an important area for intervention. The shared fortunes of immigrant and native citizens alike will be tied to successfully linking our youngest new Americans to the educational and economic opportunity structure, to civic belonging, and full democratic participation.

1,469 citations

Book
01 Jan 1995
TL;DR: In this article, a 3-year interdisciplinary research project was carried out by a research anthropologist and a research psychologist in an area of emigration in central Mexico and in an immigrant-receiving area of southern California.
Abstract: This book focuses on migration family life and achievement motivation among Latino adolescents. Reported are the findings of a 3-year interdisciplinary research project that was carried out by a research anthropologist and a research psychologist in an area of emigration in central Mexico and in an immigrant-receiving area of southern California. Chapter 1 frames the current American discourse on immigration in the context of a broader postindustrial paradox. Chapter 2 presents some debates in the field of Latino immigration with special reference to family dynamics achievement motivation and schooling. The chapter also examines competing paradigms for exploring the problem of minority status and schooling. Chapter 3 explores theoretical concerns and methodological challenges facing psychological anthropology and cross-cultural psychology in the postmodern moment. It further provides an outline of study methods including a description of informants and instruments used in conducting the research. Chapter 4 presents findings on family dynamics and explores the important psychosocial differences in peer group dynamics. Chapter 5 focuses on achievement motivation and attitudes toward school. The last chapter reviews the prevailing worldwide debate over immigration and offers some general conclusions.

813 citations

Book
01 Jan 2010
TL;DR: The Long View on Immigrant Students 1. Academic Engagement and Performance 2. Networks of Relationships 3. Less-Than-Optimal Schools 4. The Challenge of Learning English 5. Portraits of Declining Achievers 6. Portrait of Low Achiever 7.Portraits of Improvers 8.
Abstract: Introduction: The Long View on Immigrant Students 1. Academic Engagement and Performance 2. Networks of Relationships 3. Less-Than-Optimal Schools 4. The Challenge of Learning English 5. Portraits of Declining Achievers 6. Portraits of Low Achievers 7. Portraits of Improvers 8. Portraits of High Achievers Conclusion: Immigration Policy Dilemmas Notes References Acknowledgments Index Tables and Figures

679 citations

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TL;DR: In this article, the authors develop a conceptual framework to systematically examine the ways in which unauthorized status affects the millions of children, adolescents, and emerging adults caught in its wake, and elucidate the various dimensions of documentation status.
Abstract: Unauthorized immigrants account for approximately one-fourth of all immigrants in the United States, yet they dominate public perceptions and are at the heart of a policy impasse. Caught in the middle are the children of these immigrants—youth who are coming of age and living in the shadows. An estimated 5.5 million children and adolescents are growing up with unauthorized parents and are experiencing multiple and yet unrecognized developmental consequences as a result of their family's existence in the shadow of the law. Although these youth are American in spirit and voice, they are nonetheless members of families that are "illegal" in the eyes of the law. In this article, the authors develop a conceptual framework to systematically examine the ways in which unauthorized status affects the millions of children, adolescents, and emerging adults caught in its wake. The authors elucidate the various dimensions of documentation status—going beyond the binary of the "authorized" and "unauthorized." An ecolog...

461 citations

Book
07 Nov 2003
TL;DR: An alternative anthropology: exercising the preferential option of the poor / Leigh Binford as discussed by the authors ) is an alternative anthropology approach to the treatment of the disadvantaged in the US. But it is not an alternative to our approach.
Abstract: An alternative anthropology: exercising the preferential option of the poor / Leigh Binford

354 citations


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TL;DR: The concept of school engagement has attracted increasing attention as representing a possible antidote to declining academic motivation and achievement as mentioned in this paper, and it is presumed to be malleable, responsive to contextual features, and amenable to environmental change.
Abstract: The concept of school engagement has attracted increasing attention as representing a possible antidote to declining academic motivation and achievement. Engagement is presumed to be malleable, responsive to contextual features, and amenable to environmental change. Researchers describe behavioral, emotional, and cognitive engagement and recommend studying engagement as a multifaceted construct. This article reviews definitions, measures, precursors, and outcomes of engagement; discusses limitations in the existing research; and suggests improvements. The authors conclude that, although much has been learned, the potential contribution of the concept of school engagement to research on student experience has yet to be realized. They call for richer characterizations of how students behave, feel, and think—research that could aid in the development of finely tuned interventions

7,641 citations

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TL;DR: The authors integrate and synthesize what is known about racial and ethnic socialization on the basis of current empirical research, examining studies concerning its nature and frequency; its child, parent, and ecological predictors; and its consequences for children's development, including ethnic identity, self-esteem, coping with discrimination, academic achievement, and psychosocial well-being.
Abstract: Recently, there has been an emergence of literature on the mechanisms through which parents transmit information, values, and perspectives about ethnicity and race to their children, commonly referred to as racial or ethnic socialization. This literature has sought to document the nature of such socialization, its antecedents in parents' and children's characteristics and experiences, and its consequences for children's well-being and development. In this article, the authors integrate and synthesize what is known about racial and ethnic socialization on the basis of current empirical research, examining studies concerning its nature and frequency; its child, parent, and ecological predictors; and its consequences for children's development, including ethnic identity, self-esteem, coping with discrimination, academic achievement, and psychosocial well-being. The authors also discuss conceptual and methodological limitations of the literature and suggest directions for future research.

1,801 citations

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TL;DR: An expanded operationalization of acculturation is needed to address the "immigrant paradox," whereby international migrants with more exposure to the receiving cultural context report poorer mental and physical health outcomes.
Abstract: This article presents an expanded model of acculturation among international migrants and their immediate descendants. Acculturation is proposed as a multidimensional process consisting of the confluence among heritage-cultural and receiving-cultural practices, values, and identifications. The implications of this reconceptualization for the acculturation construct, as well as for its relationship to psychosocial and health outcomes, are discussed. In particular, an expanded operationalization of acculturation is needed to address the "immigrant paradox," whereby international migrants with more exposure to the receiving cultural context report poorer mental and physical health outcomes. We discuss the role of ethnicity, cultural similarity, and discrimination in the acculturation process, offer an operational definition for context of reception, and call for studies on the role that context of reception plays in the acculturation process. The new perspective on acculturation presented in this article is intended to yield a fuller understanding of complex acculturation processes and their relationships to contextual and individual functioning.

1,757 citations

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01 May 2006

1,625 citations

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TL;DR: The issues and controversies surrounding the development of the segmented assimilation theory are examined and the state of recent empirical research relevant to this theoretical approach is reviewed.
Abstract: The segmented assimilation theory offers a theoretical framework for understanding the process by which the new second generation – the children of contemporary immigrants – becomes incorporated in

1,413 citations