Community Resources
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Immigration Resource Map
Our Immigration Resource Map is a visual mapping of community resources that provide critical services to immigrant and refugee communities. This digital resource map identifies locations that provide immigration legal, educational and advocacy services in Minnesota.
Discrimination Helpline
If you experience or witness discrimination, please report it to Minnesota’s Discrimination Helpline at 1-833-454-0148 or submit on the online form linked below. The helpline is staffed by the Minnesota Department of Human Rights. Translation/interpretation services are available.
COVID-19 Relief, Recovery & Rebuilding Work
A Race to Close the Disproportionate COVID-19 Mortality Rates in Minnesota’s Asian Community
2021
The COVID-19 pandemic is negatively and disproportionately impacting Asian Minnesotans who have higher rates of infection and mortality. When data is disaggregated, the Hmong, Karen and Karenni are more impacted than other Asian ethnic groups. This trend is consistent and persistent among various Asian ethnic communities. It brings to light the need for further disaggregated data to better inform targeted strategies to reduce the racial and ethnic COVID-19 disparities.
This report includes 2020 COVID-19 mortality rates within the Minnesota Asian population, discusses social and environmental factors, and explores recommendations on how to close health disparities experienced by unique Asian cultural groups in Minnesota.
Stronger Tigether
Stronger Together: A Survey of Asian Minnesotan Nonprofits
during COVID-19
2020
To better understand the challenges facing this ecosystem of
organizations in light of the COVID-19 pandemic, CAAL conducted a survey throughout the summer of 2020. The data reflects the responses of 18 organizations—about 40% of the Asian Minnesotan organizations in our database—and so should not be taken as a comprehensive analysis, but rather, a window into some of the challenges this community is facing and what opportunities exist to support them through these overlapping health and economic crises.
Economic Reports
Redefining Wealth through Communal and Cultural Assets
2021
Invisibility Perpetuated: The
Complex Economics of Asian
Minnesotans
2019
Economics Visual Report
2019
Paths Forward on Economics
2015
Economic Data
2015
Education Reports
Power, Politics, and Preservation of Heritage Languages
2020
This paper arose out of a partnership between the Coalition of Asian American Leaders (CAAL) and Education Evolving following a summit
hosted by CAAL in June of 2019. The summit was attended by more than
100 racially and ethnically diverse educators from Minnesota, Wisconsin, and California who came together to discuss how they approach teaching and reclaiming language literacy.
Every Student Succeeds Act Initiative – Policy Brief
2019
By fully supporting multilingualism and educational equity, Minnesota can simultaneously create
short-term education benefits for all students while simultaneously creating longterm workforce and social benefits for the entire state.
The following brief uplifts the Minnesota Multilingual Equity Network’s equity agenda and recommendations to MDE for implementing the Every Student Succeeds Act.
Paths Forward on Education
2015
CAAL engaged over 350 Asian American leaders from across ethnicities, sectors, and age groups to inform our strategic direction. Two work groups dove into the quantitative data and guided key informant interviews to help us understand the nuances within Minnesota’s Asian American population. The community’s voices and collective leadership now set the paths forward on education and economic issues.
Data Disaggregation: Frequently Asked Questions
Check out this brief FAQ to learn about data diaggregattion and why we think it’s so important.
State of Asian Minnesotans Briefs
When there is not enough data and information, or stories and lived experiences about a community, generalizations are formed that neither acknowledge the unique assets or unique needs of those communities. This often leads to further invisibility and exclusion.
Given this moment – where Asian Minnesotans have become the fastest growing racial group in the state; are composed of over 40+ ethnic groups whose immigrant paths are varied; and, are facing new and old challenges that stand in the way of true community prosperity – we believe we can and must do more to learn more about the state of the community.
In 2020, we brought research and information, stories and narratives, and posed questions on timely topics so that we could consider how to move forward. Our State of Asian Minnesotans Series sought to deepen our collective understanding of this growing and important population, and pushed us all to consider what building powerful communities that truly help to shape our democracy can look like.
Read briefs from all six sessions below:
Brief No. 1: Countering Xenophobia & Anti-Asian Racism
2021
Brief No. 2:
Immigration & Resistance
2021
Brief No. 3:
Visibility & Survival in the
Age of COVID-19
2021
Brief No. 4: Fired Up and Ready to Take Action
2021
Brief No. 5:
Radically Reimagining Our Future
2021
Brief No. 6:
Rising Up Together
2021
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