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Overview

Carola Suárez-Orozco is affiliated with the University of California, Los Angeles, in the United States. Their research intersects primarily within the social sciences and psychology, with a strong emphasis on education and clinical psychology subfields, as well as sociology and political science.

Their scholarly work addresses several main topics, including:

  • Early Childhood Education and Development
  • Migration, Health and Trauma
  • Racial and Ethnic Identity Research
  • Education and experiences of immigrants and refugees
  • Parental Involvement in Education
  • Family and Disability Support Research
  • Teacher Education and Leadership Studies

Suárez-Orozco has contributed to the academic community through publications in various venues, with a notable presence in:

  • Urban Education
  • New York University Press eBooks
  • Community College Review
  • Frontiers in Psychiatry
  • Cultural Diversity & Ethnic Minority Psychology

Their recent published papers include:

  • "Academic Outcomes Among Diverse Community College Students: What Is the Role of Instructor Relationships?", 2020, Community College Review
  • "Waking Up Every Day With the Worry": A Mixed-Methods Study of Anxiety in Undocumented Latinx College Students, 2020, Frontiers in Psychiatry
  • "Parents, friends and immigrant youths' academic engagement: A mediation analysis", 2020, International Journal of Psychology
  • "Everyone collaborated and came together": The civic promise (and pitfalls) of yPAR for immigrant-origin students in an era of deportation., 2021, Cultural Diversity & Ethnic Minority Psychology
  • "Everyone has their story": Intergroup dialogue's potential to cultivate connection through the sharing of migration narratives, 2022, Psychology in the Schools

In terms of books, Suárez-Orozco has published works such as:

  • Education, 2022, Columbia University Press
  • Transitions, 2020, New York University Press eBooks

Frequent collaborators in their research include:

  • Mona M. Abo-Zena
  • Amy K. Marks
  • Guadalupe López Hernández
  • Marcelo M. Suàrez-Orozco
  • Juliana Karras-Jean Gilles

Best Publications

  • Children of immigration

    Marcelo M. Suárez-Orozco;Carola Suárez-Orozco

  • Journal article reporting standards for qualitative primary, qualitative meta-analytic, and mixed methods research in psychology: The APA Publications and Communications Board task force report.

    Heidi M. Levitt;Michael Bamberg;John W. Creswell;David M. Frost

  • Learning a new land

    Carola Suárez-Orozco;Marcelo M. Suárez-Orozco;Irina Todorova

  • Transformations: Immigration, Family Life, and Achievement Motivation Among Latino Adolescents

    Carola Suárez-Orozco;Marcelo M. Suárez-Orozco

  • Learning a New Land: Immigrant Students in American Society

    Carola Suárez-Orozco;Marcelo M. Suarez-Orozco;Irina Todorova

  • Growing up in the Shadows: The Developmental Implications of Unauthorized Status.

    Carola Suárez-Orozco;Hirokazu Yoshikawa;Robert T. Teranishi;Marcelo M. Suárez-Orozco

  • The Significance of Relationships: Academic Engagement and Achievement Among Newcomer Immigrant Youth

    Carola Suarez-Orozco;Allyson Pimentel;Margary Martin

  • No Place to Belong Contextualizing Concepts of Mental Health Among Undocumented Immigrant Youth in the United States

    Roberto G. Gonzales;Carola Suárez-Orozco;Maria Cecilia Dedios-Sanguineti

  • An integrative risk and resilience model for understanding the adaptation of immigrant-origin children and youth.

    Carola Suárez-Orozco;Frosso Motti-Stefanidi;Amy Marks;Dalal Katsiaficas

  • Academic Trajectories of Newcomer Immigrant Youth.

    Carola Suárez-Orozco;Francisco X. Gaytán;Hee Jin Bang;Juliana Pakes

  • Unraveling the Immigrant Paradox: Academic Engagement and Disengagement Among Recently Arrived Immigrant Youth

    Carola Suárez-Orozco;Jean Rhodes;Michael Milburn

  • I Felt Like My Heart Was Staying behind: Psychological Implications of Family Separations & Reunifications for Immigrant Youth.

    Carola Suárez-Orozco;Hee Jin Bang;Ha Yeon Kim

  • Gendered Perspectives in Psychology: Immigrant Origin Youth

    Carola Suárez-Orozco;Desirée Baolian Qin

  • 8. Formulating Identity in a Globalized World

    Carola Suárez-Orozco

  • Identities Under Siege: Immigration Stress and Social Mirroring among the Children of Immigrants

    Carola Suàrez-Orozco

  • Immigrants in Community Colleges

    Robert T. Teranishi;Carola Suárez-Orozco;Marcelo Suárez-Orozco

  • Explaining English Language Proficiency Among Adolescent Immigrant Students

    Avary Carhill;Carola Suárez-Orozco;Mariela Páez

  • Undocumented Undergraduates on College Campuses: Understanding Their Challenges and Assets and What It Takes to Make an Undocufriendly Campus

    Carola Suárez-Orozco;Dalal Katsiaficas;Olivia Birchall;Cy Nthia M. Alcantar

  • Promoting Academic Engagement among Immigrant Adolescents through School-Family-Community Collaboration

    Carola Suárez-Orozco;Marie Onaga;Cécile de Lardemelle

  • Toxic Rain in Class Classroom Interpersonal Microaggressions

    Carola Suárez-Orozco;Saskias Casanova;Margary Martin;Dalal Katsiaficas

  • Supportive adult relationships and the academic engagement of Latin American immigrant youth.

    Gillian Green;Jean Rhodes;Abigail Heitler Hirsch;Carola Suárez-Orozco

Frequent Co-Authors

Hirokazu Yoshikawa
Hirokazu Yoshikawa New York University
Jean E. Rhodes
Jean E. Rhodes University of Massachusetts Boston
Carol S. Dweck
Carol S. Dweck Stanford University
Lisa Linnenbrink-Garcia
Lisa Linnenbrink-Garcia Michigan State University
Reinhard Pekrun
Reinhard Pekrun Australian Catholic University
Michael J. Chandler
Michael J. Chandler University of British Columbia
David M. Frost
David M. Frost University College London
Paul M. Camic
Paul M. Camic University College London
Robert W. Roeser
Robert W. Roeser Pennsylvania State University
Diane Hughes
Diane Hughes New York University

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