Marcelo Suarez-Orozco to speak at FIU Sept. 14

FIU’s College of Education will host Marcelo Suarez-Orozco, renowned scholar on immigration and globalization, at a student workshop, lecture and book signing Wednesday, Sept. 14, in the MARC Pavilion at Modesto A. Maidique Campus. The title of Suarez-Orozco’s lecture is “Immigration and Education in the Age of Global Vertigo.”

The Courtney Sale Ross University Professor of Globalization and Education at New York University, Suarez-Orozco co-directs Immigration Studies at NYU’s Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development. The program, in his own words, “focuses on the way immigration is changing our city, our state, and our nation, and how immigrants themselves are changed by the processes of immigration.”

The event will begin with a workshop for students from 2:30 to 4 p.m., followed by his lecture from 5 to 6:30 p.m. A book signing for Learning a New Land: Immigrant Students in American Society and Children of Immigration will follow from 6:30 to 7 p.m.

Suarez-Orozco’s research has been funded by the National Science Foundation as well as W.T. Grant, Spencer, Ford and Carnegie foundations, among other entities. His work has been published as scholarly essays, award-winning books and edited volumes.

The events are free and sponsored by the COE Title V CLAVE project.