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Somali Refugee Resettlement in Minnesota

The resettlement of Somali refugees in Minnesota, USA, from the early 1990s, and the role of community networks, government policies, and socioeconomic factors in shaping their settlement and integration.

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Jan 23, 2026

How have US refugee resettlement policies interacted with local Somali community networks in Minnesota?

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...