Digital Divide Between Immigrants and U.S.-Born

The Institute for Education and the Arts is posting this article about the digital divide between immigrants and those born in the United States.

Crossing the Divide: Immigrant Youth and Digital Disparity in California

UCSC Center for Justice, Tolerance and Community, 2006

"A study by researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, finds that the digital divide between immigrants and the native born is widening in the United States, with some immigrant groups less than half as likely to have computer access at home as nonimmigrants. Only 36 percent of Latino immigrant youth have a computer at home, compared with 77 percent of U.S.- born non-Latino youth."

Read more at http://www.cjtc.ucsc.edu/docs/digital.pdf .

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