Rethinking Global Migration MARCELO M. SUÁREZ-OROZCO Ross University Professor at New York University Co-Director, Immigration NYU NYU, August 12, 2010
The Age of Global Vertigo
Global Migration Global Migration
Utopia and Dystopia Utopia and Dystopia
Love and Work
War ar and Work (and War)
Environmental Migration
Migration by Development Migration by Development
Migration by Continent
Transnational Migration, UNPD, 2010, 214 Million – in 2007: Transnational Migration, UNPD, 2010, 214 Million – in 2007: 53 million North South 61 million 62 million 14 million North South
Comparative Transnational Migration, in 2010 US has 43 Million Immigrants, in 2005:
Rate of Immigration, USA Rate of Immigration, USA
The New Immigration and the New, New Immigration Top Countries of Birth, 2008 Country of Birth2006% 1. Mexico11,534, Philippines1,634, India1,505, China1,357, Vietnam1,116, El Salvador1,042, Korea1,021, Cuba932, Canada847, Dominican Republic764, Guatemala740, Jamaica643, Adapted from Pew Hispanic Center, 2008
The Cultural Psychology of Immigration Immigration is “of and for” the Family Separations and Re-Unifications Transnationalism of the Heart: by the end of the decade remittances surpassed 350 billion dollars – more than double the combined world international aid-India received $27 billion, China $25.7 billion, Mexico $25 billion, Philippines $17 billion (World Bank, 2008)
Distribution of Children by Race and Ethnicity: 1990, 2008, and 2030 * Non-Hispanic. Estimates for 2008 and 2030 for Whites, Blacks and Others are for those who identify with only one race. Source: U.S. Census Bureau and National Center for Health Statistics
Transgenerational Asymmetry Age-Sex Pyramid for Non-Hispanic Whites in the United States, 2006 Current Population Survey
Transgenerational Asymmetry Age-Sex Pyramid for Native-Born Hispanics in the United States, 2006 Current Population Survey
The End of Immigration