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Rethinking Global Migration . MARCELO M. SUÁREZ-OROZCO Ross University Professor at New York University Co-Director, Immigration Studies @ NYU www.nyu.education/immigration NYU, August 12, 2010 . The Age of Global Vertigo. Global Migration . Utopia and Dystopia . Love and Work.
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Rethinking Global Migration MARCELO M. SUÁREZ-OROZCO Ross University Professor at New York University Co-Director, Immigration Studies @ NYU www.nyu.education/immigration NYU, August 12, 2010
Transnational Migration, UNPD, 2010, 214 Million – in 2007: 53 million North North 62 million 14 million 61 million South South
Comparative Transnational Migration, • in 2010 US has 43 Million Immigrants, in 2005: http://www.migrationinformation.org/datahub/charts/6.1.shtml
The New Immigration and the New, New Immigration Top Countries of Birth, 2008 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, 2006Current Population Survey