Swedish Greeks

Swedish Greeks, also known as Greek Swedes, consist of people of Greek nationality who have settled in Sweden, as well as Swedish people and Swedish residents of Greek heritage.

Swedish Greeks
Svenskgreker
اΈλληνες της Σουηδίας
Total population
34,354
0.33% of the Swedish population (2020)
Regions with significant populations
Stockholm, Gothenburg
Languages
Greek, Swedish
Religion
Greek Orthodox Church

As of January 2020, 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

See also

References
  1. "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
  • Markopoulou, Christina (1981), Sociocultural effects of intra-European migration: a cyclical research study in Greece and Sweden, Monografier utgivna av Sociologiska institutionen, 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, 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
  • 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, 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
  • Klinthäll, Martin (September 1999), "Greek Return Migration from Sweden 1968-1993", European Societies or European Society? Migrations and Inter-Ethnic Relations in Europe (PDF), European Science Foundation, Obernai, France, archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-07-17
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