The Greeks in Sweden constitute people of Greek nationality who have settled in Sweden, as well as Swedish people and Swedish residents of Greek heritage.
| Total population | |
|---|---|
| 34,362 0.37% of the Swedish population (2020) | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
| Stockholm, Gothenburg, Malmö | |
| Languages | |
| Greek and Swedish | |
| Religion | |
| Greek Orthodox Church | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| Greek diaspora |
As of January 2020,[update] there were 19,547 people born in Greece living in Sweden, as well as 14,807 people born in Sweden with at least one parent born in Greece.[1] They are located mostly in the southern part of Sweden, especially around Stockholm.
Notable people
edit- Steve Angello – DJ, producer, and music label owner
- Mikkey Dee – drummer and songwriter for Motörhead
- Theodor Kallifatides – writer
- Kim Cesarion – singer
- Elena Paparizou – singer
- Apollo Papathanasio – singer
- Alexandra Pascalidou – journalist, TV host, and author
- Vasilis Papageorgiou – author, translator, university professor
- Babis Stefanidis – football player and manager
- Panajotis Dimitriadis – football player
- Elli Avram – Bollywood Actress
- Sotirios Papagiannopoulos – football player
- Sotiris Delis – politician, Member of the Riksdag since 2014
- Dimitri Stassos – songwriter, particularly for the Eurovision Song Contest
- Nino (Greek singer) – half Swedish male singer from Swedish mother and Greek father
- Antique (band) Swedish band, member born and raised in Sweden Nikos Panagiotidis – singer and musician (bouzouki)
- Alex P – Greek Swedish songwriter and music producer
See also
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References
edit- ^ "Foreign-born and persons born in Sweden with one or two Foreign-born parents by Country of Birth/Country of Origin 31 december 2019, total". Statistics Sweden. Retrieved 17 April 2020.
Further reading
edit- Markopoulou, Christina (1981), Sociocultural effects of intra-European migration: a cyclical research study in Greece and Sweden, Monografier utgivna av Sociologiska institutionen, vol. 22, Sweden: University of Gothenburg, OCLC 10301691
- Corvino, Teresa; Kazana, Vasola (1984), Grekiska kvinnor: deras situation i Stockholm/Greek women: their situation in Stockholm, Norrköping: Statens invandrarverk, ISBN 978-91-7016-404-0, OCLC 185864262
- Engelbrektsson, Ulla-Britt (1987), Greker i Västerstad/Greeks in Västerstad, Rapport från DEIFO, vol. 3, Stockholm: Delegationen för invandrarforskning, OCLC 185563946
- Neiderud, J. (1989), "Greek Immigrant Children in Southern Sweden in Comparison with Greek and Swedish Children", Scandinavian Journal of Public Health, 17 (1): 25–31, doi:10.1177/140349488901700106, PMID 2711144, S2CID 11039652
- Boukas, Andreas (1993), Greker i Sverige: en bit svensk historia, från argonauterna till nutid/Greeks in Sweden: a piece of Swedish history, from the Argonauts to the present, Stockholm: Grekiskt bibliotek och arkiv i Sverige, ISBN 978-91-971820-0-3, OCLC 186176685
- Kostoulas-Makrakis, Nelly (1995), Language maintenance or shift? a study of Greek background students in Sweden, Studies in comparative and international education, vol. 33, Institute on International Education, Stockholm University, ISBN 978-91-7153-328-9, OCLC 33333944
- Löfvander, Monica B.; Furhoff, A.-K. (1996), "Backache in Greek Immigrants to Sweden: A Cultural Interpretative Approach", Transcultural Psychiatry, 33 (3): 319–332, doi:10.1177/136346159603300304, S2CID 58003689
- Klinthäll, Martin (September 1999), "Greek Return Migration from Sweden 1968–1993" (PDF), European Societies or European Society? Migrations and Inter-Ethnic Relations in Europe, European Science Foundation, Obernai, France, archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-07-17
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