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
War
Environmental Migration
Migration by Development
Migration by Continent
85+
Male
Female
80-84
75-79
70-74
65-69
60-64
55-59
50-54
45-49
40-44
35-39
30-34
25-29
20-24
15-19
10-14
5-9
0-4
-6
-5
-4
-3
-2
-1
0
1
2
3
4
5
6
Transnational Migration, UNPD, 2010,
214 Million – in 2007:
South
53 million
North
14 million
62 million
North
61 million
South
Comparative Transnational Migration,
in 2010 US has 43 Million Immigrants, in 2005:
http://www.migrationinformation.org/datahub/charts/6.1.shtml
Rate of Immigration, USA 1890-2010
The New Immigration and the New,
New Immigration Top Countries of Birth, 2008
Country of Birth
2006
%
11,534,972
30.8
2. Philippines
1,634,117
4.4
3. India
1,505,351
4.0
4. China
1,357,482
3.6
5. Vietnam
1,116,156
3.0
6. El Salvador
1,042,218
2.8
7. Korea
1,021,212
2.7
8. Cuba
932,563
2.5
9. Canada
847,228
2.3
10. Dominican Republic
764,930
2.0
11. Guatemala
740,986
2.0
12. Jamaica
643,067
1.7
1. Mexico
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
85+
Male
Female
80-84
75-79
70-74
65-69
60-64
55-59
50-54
45-49
40-44
35-39
30-34
25-29
20-24
15-19
10-14
5-9
0-4
-6
-5
-4
-3
-2
-1
0
1
2
3
4
5
6
Transgenerational Asymmetry
Age-Sex Pyramid for Native-Born Hispanics in the United States, 2006
Current Population Survey
85+
80-84
Male
Female
75-79
70-74
65-69
60-64
55-59
50-54
45-49
40-44
35-39
30-34
25-29
20-24
15-19
10-14
5-9
0-4
-10
-9
-8
-7
-6
-5
-4
-3
-2
-1
0
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
The End of Immigration