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Information about New Americans in North Dakota

After births, the second largest source of population growth in North Dakota can be attributed to foreign/international migration. Frequently, New Americans come to North Dakota with the assistance of the Lutheran Social Services Refugee Resettlement Program.

Publication Resources for Race/Ethnicity:

• Research Publications
• Population Bulletins

Select Data Links:

• Data about nativity, place of birth, and languages spoken in the home are available from the U.S. Census Bureau.
  • Immigration topics
    • Foreign-born population
      • Nativity of the Population, for Regions, Divisions, and States: 1850 to 1990
      • The Foreign-Born Population: 2000 [pdf]
  • See Census 2000 Profiles
    • The DP-2 Census 2000 Profile (page 2 of the 4-page profiles) includes data on nativity and place of birth, region of birth among foreign born, language spoken at home, ancestry
  • Census 2000: relevant SF-3 data tables on American FactFinder, which can be accessed at a variety of geographic levels, include: QT-P13 (Ancestry: 2000), QT-P14 (Nativity, Citizenship, Year of Entry, and Region of Birth: 2000), QT-P15 (Region and Country or Area of Birth of the Foreign-Born Population: 2000), and QT-P16 (Language Spoken at Home: 2000)

Additional Links:

• Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration (U.S. Dept. of State)
• Center for Immigration Studies
  • Illegal Immigration
  • Legal Immigration
• Forced Migration Online
• Healthy Roads Media - health information available in several languages and formats
• Human Rights Watch: Refugees
• HumanTrafficking.org
• Immigration Insight from legallanguage.com
• National Immigration Forum
• New Americans feature from Prairie Public
• New York Association for New Americans
• Office of Immigration Statistics (U.S. Dept. of Homeland Security)
• Refugees International
• UNHCR - the UN Refugee Agency
• United States Immigration Support
• U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (U.S. Dept. of Homeland Security)
• U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants
• USInfo.State.Gov
  • Human Trafficking