Published : 2012-12-31

The origin of Polish clusters in Sweden

Elżbieta Muciek



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Poland and Sweden have shared mutual relationships for more than a thousand years. The earliest date back to the period before the creation of the two countries. The subsequent relations involved the union of dynasties including people such as Swietoslav, Eric, Catherine of the Jagiellonian dynasty and the Vasa dynasty. But in fact Polish settlements in Sweden started appearing after the January Uprising and small Polish colonies formed just before the First World War. Greater influx of Poles had taken place during the Second World War and in the post-war period of Polish People’s Republic, as well as during the mid-fifties of the 20th century, in March 1968, the decade of the seventies and after the martial law had been imposed. There are about 100,000 Polish people living in Sweden nowadays. Poles live in all Swedish provinces. The largest clusters have been formed in metropolitan areas such as Stockholm, Malmö and Gothenburg and are considered as a new minority; one of the six largest minorities among more than sixty immigrant groups in Sweden.

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Poland, Sweden, emigration, Polish community abroad, Polish diaspora, Congress of Poles in Sweden



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Muciek, E. (2012). The origin of Polish clusters in Sweden. Facta Simonidis, 5(1), 7–29. https://doi.org/10.56583/fs.248

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