LSS Refugee Services:
Resettlement Through the Years
Lutheran Social Service of Minnesota: Refugee Services began operating in the middle 1970’s in response to the crisis occurring in Southeast Asia. Refugees started to arrive in Minnesota from countries such as Cambodia, Vietnam, and Laos. During the 1980’s, LSS Refugee Services continued to resettle refugees from these countries, as well as countries such as Ethiopia.
During the 1990’s and into the twenty-first century, conflicts in different regions of the world, such as in East and West Africa, as well as changing political situations, such as in Eastern Europe, brought refugees from these regions into Minnesota. LSS Refugee Services, as it has in the past, continues to play an instrumental role in assisting refugees, no matter where they come from, in starting their new lives in Minnesota.
Click here to view LSS Refugee Arrivals over the years.
LSS has been fortunate to assist in the resettlement of families and individuals from all over the world.
Click here to view a snapshot of where these individuals have come from.
