| Total population |
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| Serbs 80,000[1] |
| Regions with significant populations |
| Stockholm, Göteborg, Malmö |
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The Swedish Serbs (Swedish: Serber) constituted a low percentage of the Swedish population prior to the 1960s. Some came after World War II, mostly seeking political asylum. The greatest proportion of Serbs came together with Greeks, Italians and Turks under the visa agreements in times of severe labour shortages or when particular skills were deficient within Sweden.[2] During the '60s and '70s, agreements were signed with the governments of Yugoslavia to help Sweden overcome its severe labour shortage.[3]
Bosnian and Croatian Serbs migrated in another wave during and after the Yugoslav wars. Another wave of Kosovar Serbs came during the Kosovo war in 1999.
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The majority of Serbs in Sweden came 1965-1969, during the Arbetskraftsinvandring (influx of Migrant workers from southern Europe, see related Gastarbeiter).
The Serbs in Sweden are bilingual, Code-switching has made the Serbian community develop an informal, but characteristic form of Swedish speech as other immigrant groups.
The Serbian language is a rich contributor in the Rinkeby Swedish, a socio- and ethnolect of the Swedish language.
The Ćevapčići and Pljeskavica are two Serbian dishes that has become popular in Sweden.
Stockholm-based Östblocket and Macedonian-Swedish Andra Generationen are both Balkan Brass Bands, a musical style from southern Serbia.
Swedish Serbs have been very successful in sports, among most notable are
The Stockholm Eagles is a Serbian-Swedish basketball team that has become very successful since its establishment in 2007. They won the Swedish Final4 in april 2011 and became the best team in the Swedish first division (Basketettan).[4]
In 1972 the first Serbian Orthodox parish (of St. Nicholas) was formed in Västerås, prior to the forming the Serbs were headed by Swedish Orthodox priest Christofer Klasson, previously priest in the Church of Sweden. Later, the same year a parish was formed in Malmö (of Saints Cyrils and Methodius) and in 1973 one in Stockholm (of Saint Sava). Later, parishes have been formed in Göteborg (of Stefan Decanski), Jönköping (of Nativity of Mary), Helsingborg (of St Basil the Great) and one more in Stockholm. The parishes have their own head-priest.
In Malmö, 1982, the Church of Saint Cyril and Methodius was opened, the first Serbian church in Sweden. The parish of Saint Sava opened its church in Enskede, in 1983, the parish in Göteborg also has a church.
The parish in Malmö suffered several attacks in 1990, the premises were firebombed but the church was not damaged, the perpetrators were racist youths who were later convicted of arson.[5]
The SOC has parishes and churches in the cities of:
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