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About Us

From our very origins, the human journey has been shaped by migration. For over 70,000 years, human beings have been on the move and today migrations are reshaping the world. While foundational to the human experience, when large numbers of newcomers arrive, they are often met with skepticism and distrust.

In the U.S., twenty-five percent of children under the age of 18 have an immigrant parent. The world over, the success of the children of immigrants is essential to our shared future. Education, in and out of school, will play a foundational role in helping to nurture democracy.

Re-Imagining Migration is a new organization created to foster understanding and the successful inclusion of immigrant youth across the globe. By providing resources and training to educators, we equip them to engage the children of migration and their peers to learn from one another in reflective learning environments. The goal of our work is to empower all students to become ethical and active participants in our interconnected world.

We were founded in July 2017 by Adam Strom, the former Director of Scholarship and Innovation at Facing History and Ourselves, and pioneering scholars of immigration and education, Carola Suarez-Orozco, the Co-Director of the Institute for Immigration, Globalization & Education at UCLA and Marcelo Suarez-Orozco, the Wasserman Dean of the Graduate School of Education and Information Sciences at UCLA. The project is developing rigorously vetted resources for classrooms and opportunities for lifelong learning and quality professional development to foster the civic skills, social, and intellectual habits necessary for democracy to flourish in the age of mass migrations. [more]

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Our Team

We have a deep passion for education, in and out of schools. Members of our team have presented our work in a variety of settings, to a wide range of audiences, from the Vatican and the White House to museums, international conferences, and school-based learning communities. The educational resources we have developed have been used by tens of thousands of teachers and millions of students around the world and the books and papers we have written are foundational texts in the field of education, immigration, and youth. At Re-Imagining Migration we bring these experiences to one of the defining issues of our time.

Adam Strom

Director of ReImagining Migration

Throughout his career, Mr. Strom has connected the Academy, to classrooms, and the community by using the latest scholarship to encourage learning about identity, bias, belonging, history, and the challenges and opportunities of civic engagement in our globalized world. The resources developed under Strom’s direction have been used in tens of thousands of classrooms and experienced by millions of students around the world including Stories of Identity: Religion, Migration, and Belonging in a Changing World and What Do We Do with a Difference? France and The Debate Over Headscarves in Schools, Identity, and Belonging in a Changing Great Britain, and the viewer’s guide to I Learn America. Before joining the ReImagining Migration Project, Strom was the Director of Scholarship and Innovation at Facing History and Ourselves.

Carola Suárez-Orozco

Professor of Human Development and Psychology and the Co-Director of the Institute for Immigration, Globalization, and Education at UCLA

Professor Suárez-Orozco’s previous books include: Children of Immigration, Learning a New Land, and Transitions: The Development of the Children of Immigrants, the winner of the Best Edited Book Award presented by the Society for Research on Adolescence. She has been awarded an APA Presidential Citation for her contributions to the understanding of the cultural psychology of immigration and has served as Chair of the APA Presidential Task Force on Immigration.

Marcelo Suárez-Orozco

Professor of Human Development and Psychology and the Co-Director of the Institute for Immigration, Globalization, and Education at UCLA

Professor Suárez-Orozco leads two academic departments, 16 nationally renowned research institutes, and two innovative demonstration schools at UCLA’s Graduate School of Education & Information Studies. His research focuses on cultural psychology and psychological anthropology, with an emphasis on mass migration, globalization, and education. Upon arriving at UCLA in 2012, he founded the Institute for Immigrant Children, Youth, and Families, which he co-directs with Dr. Carola Suárez-Orozco, UCLA Ed & IS professor of education. A native of Buenos Aires, Suárez-Orozco earned his A.B. in psychology, M.A. in anthropology, and Ph.D. in anthropology at UC Berkeley.