Minneapolis Star Tribune: New Somali refugee arrivals in Minnesota are increasing - "After a major dip in 2008, the yearly numbers of new Somali refugees in Minnesota have rebounded steadily. The number of Somalis resettled in the state has more than tripled in four years."

New Somali refugee arrivals in Minnesota are increasing



After a dip in 2008, a second wave of Somali refugees is arriving in the state. But with fewer family ties, this group faces a new set of challenges.

A week after the United States government resettled them in Connecticut this summer, Nur Ali and his wife, Mahado Mo­ha­med, had decided: They were moving to Minnesota.

Tales of the state’s large So­ma­li community had intrigued them back in the Ken­yan refugee camp where they had married and had five children. Now, a So­ma­li man they met in Hartford told them all re­cent arrivals head to Minnesota, home of “Little Moga­dis­hu.”

After a major dip in 2008, the yearly numbers of new Somali refugees in Minnesota have rebounded steadily. The number of Somalis resettled in the state has more than tripled in four years. As resettlements nationally have picked up, more Somalis are also arriving here after brief stints in other states — often trading early support from resettlement agencies for the company of more fellow Somalis. ...

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