Marcelo Suárez-Orozco, Wasserman Dean of the UCLA Graduate School of Education & Information Studies, gave a lecture (PDF) at the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences in Vatican City. During the talk, he talked about global migration, including current data on human migration and the causes behind mass migration such as unchecked climate change, environmental degradation, war and terror. Suárez-Orozco offered a humanitarian perspective on responses and solutions to what he calls “the defining existential crisis of our times.”
Suárez-Orozco, who is also a distinguished professor of education, focuses on conceptual and empirical problems in the areas of cultural psychology and psychological anthropology with an emphasis on the study of mass migration, globalization and education. He was appointed an Academician to the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences by Pope Francis in 2018 and is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.