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The migration of Somalis to Minnesota, particularly after 1990, and their initial socioeconomic conditions.
Somali refugee resettlement to Minnesota began in earnest in the early 1990s after Somalia’s civil war, grew rapidly through the 1990s and 2000s into the largest concentration of Somalis outside Afric...
City-level source estimates show Minneapolis and St. Paul each hosting substantial but smaller direct city populations of Somali residents in 2025 (Minneapolis ~19,870; St. Paul ~6,669) while Columbus...
The n population has shifted from a majority first‑generation immigrant group in 2010 toward a community with a growing share of citizens by the mid‑2020s: a rising proportion are U.S.‑born and a very...
The American Community Survey–based reporting cited by multiple news outlets and the Minnesota demography pages indicates roughly 41,000 Minnesota residents were born in Somalia and that about 87% of ...
Between roughly 2000 and 2024 Somali households in Minnesota moved from widespread economic marginality toward measurable—but still uneven—gains: poverty rates and workforce participation show decline...