Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Welcoming policy, economy bring refugees to Minnesota. In the Minneapolis Cedar-Riverside neighborhood, nicknamed “Little Mogadishu,” immigrants and their families dine at Somali restaurants ...
A Somali grocery store in Minneapolis. Somalis in Minnesota have established many community enterprises. In 2006, they accounted for $164–$494 million in purchasing power and owned 600 businesses. [14] Minneapolis in particular hosts hundreds of Somali-owned and operated commercial ventures.
Many Somali refugees in the US have experienced difficulties accessing the labour market. According to the 2010 census, 47% of Somalis in Minnesota were employed, 13% unemployed and 40% were economically inactive. By comparison, the unemployment amongst the state's overall foreign-born population was 6%. [24]
The Somali Museum of Minnesota (also known as the Somali Artifact and Cultural Museum) is a cultural institution in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States.The Minneapolis–Saint Paul metro area is home to the largest Somali immigrant and refugee population in the United States, after civil war in Somalia prompted large-scale displacement of the Somali people. [1]
The largest community of Somalis in the U.S. is just blocks away from the site of this year's Super Bowl -- and some residents are worried. Super Bowl stokes hopes, concerns of Minneapolis' Somali ...
For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways to reach us
[28] [29] Her grandfather Abukar was the director of Somalia's National Marine Transport, and some of Omar's uncles and aunts also worked as civil servants and educators. [23] She and her family fled Somalia to escape the Somali Civil War and spent four years in a Dadaab refugee camp in Garissa County, Kenya, near the Somali border. [30] [31] [32]
Born in Somalia, he came to Minnesota as a civil war refugee with the first wave of Somali immigrants. He was a successful business leader and Somali-American political pioneer. [6] At the dedication of the crossing in 2018, Minneapolis Councilman Abdi Warsame said, "This (Samatar Crossing