Swedish Greeks

Swedish Greeks
Svenskgreker
Έλληνες της Σουηδίας

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

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.

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. They are located mostly in the southern part of Sweden, especially around Stockholm.

Notable people

• 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

• Greece–Sweden relations
• Greek diaspora
• Immigration to Sweden

Further reading

• 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{{citation}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)

External links

• Greek embassy in Stockholm