A World in Two Cities

. Home . Researchers . Projects . Survey Recently Added: Music, Devotion, and Identity at Indo-Caribbean-American Temples Twin Cities Immigration Timeline 1900 - 1998 1900 Mexico, South Slavs: Serbo-Croatian, Slovenian, Bulgarian. East Slavs: Russian, Ukraine, Rusini, Byelorussia 1900 Romania 1902 Belgium 1903 Finland 1906 Greece 1920 Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Palestine, Armenia 1930 Syria 1950 Lebanon 1960 Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Kurdish 1970 Egypt 1970 North Africa 1984 Pakistan 1985 Zimbabwe, Botswana, Angola, Sudan, South Africa 1993 Burma, Zaire, Bosnia, Somalia 1994 Haiti 1996 Rwanda, Philippines, Burundi, Israel, Cameroon 1998 Senegal, Serbia, Sierra Leone, Congo, Benin, Algeria Most of these dates were found in “They Chose Minnesota” at the Minnesota Immigration History Research Center, the Minnesota immigration handbook, and on the web. Note: These dates of immigration are very approximate. In some cases records showed the earliest immigration dates. In other cases the information showed major immigration dates and we had to estimate when immigration may have started.

Contact: Anna C. Schultz - schu1778@umn.edu Last updated: September 1, 2008 (The views and opinions expressed in this page are strictly those of the page author. The contents of this page have not been reviewed or approved by the University of Minnesota.)