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Cultural Intelligence · Communities
Describe how Afghan Minnesotans arrived, the languages and peoples within the community, and how to offer respectful, well-matched service without guessing about any one person.
About 48 minutes, plus optional practice · 4 lessons · Voluntary learning
Summarize the main periods of Afghan arrival to Minnesota using state refugee data.
Identify Dari and Pashto as Afghanistan's official languages and name other languages Afghans may speak.
Describe how extended family can shape decisions for many Afghan families while recognizing variation.
Identify common service barriers reported for Afghan newcomers in Minnesota.
Find and save the contact information for the DHS Resettlement Programs Office, the Refugee and Immigrant Helpline, and your division's data practices contact. Add them to a referral list you can reach quickly during calls or meetings.
Describe how Afghan Minnesotans arrived, the languages and peoples within the community, and how to offer respectful, well-matched service without guessing about any one person.
Find and save the contact information for the DHS Resettlement Programs Office, the Refugee and Immigrant Helpline, and your division's data practices contact. Add them to a referral list you can reach quickly during calls or meetings.
Participation and course completion in this program do not count toward DHS-required training credits unless management, a director, or DHS leadership expressly approves an exception.
Supports the 4,602 primary humanitarian arrivals in 2024, with Afghanistan third at 603 after Somalia and Ukraine, and county distribution. Counts primary arrivals only.
Supports small Afghan arrivals in the 1980s and the large increase in the evacuation years (2,720 total primary arrivals). Excludes secondary migrants.
Supports that Minnesota welcomed 1,363 evacuees between September 2021 and September 2022 and that evacuees received initial reception and placement services.
Peer-reviewed account supporting 1,260 evacuees in 386 families, humanitarian parole context, and barriers including benefit uncertainty and a strained system. Describes the early response period only.
Supports Dari and Pashto as preferred languages, the Dari and Farsi caution, less common languages such as Hazaragi and Uzbek, and orienting interpreters to province of origin.
Supports the list of ethnic groups, official languages, religious composition, and the absence of a full census since 1979. Percentages are estimates.
Supports the general description of humanitarian parole and SIV eligibility for those employed by or on behalf of the U.S. government or ISAF. Federal policy changes often; not legal advice.