Archive for the ‘immigration’ Category

FH Hispania Plaza and QuieroLatino Do Our Work For Us Today

Wednesday, February 13th, 2008

I was going to write something about the new Pew Hispanic Center release on US population trends over the next 40 years, but FH Hispania Plaza did a pretty good job, so I won’t reinvent the wheel. To read it, go here.

Secondly, QuieroLatino is having some troubles today that might help explain Microsoft’s continuing troubles against Google in paid search. To read about that, go here.

Technology Makes for Better Immigration

Friday, December 14th, 2007

I saw a column in the Houston Chronicle about how technology, including the Internet, cell phones, and electronic remittances, make life better for Hispanic immigrants to the US.

This was a great line:

Technologies such as e-mail, Web sites, instant messaging, texting and digital telephony allow us to more fully live out our identities as bilingual and bicultural people in a way that was impossible for immigrants of earlier generations.