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From the early 1990s onward, large numbers of Somalis fled civil war, famine and drought and were admitted to the United States largely as refugees; many resettled in Minnesota because of established ...
opened legal pathways that brought thousands of Somalis to beginning in the early 1990s, and those formal programs intersected with dense, self-organizing Somali community networks—mosques, businesses...
Somali-led community organizations in Minnesota have long partnered with faith institutions and faith-based resettlement agencies to deliver culturally specific services ranging from refugee reception...
Major drivers of Somali migration and settlement in Minnesota since 2005 are refugee resettlement pathways (including VOLAGS and refugee agencies), the existence of a large, established Somali communi...