Scandinavian diaspora
The Scandinavian diaspora may refer to
Old diaspora
Viking and Old Norse
Scandinavian explorations, conquests, emigrations, and pioneering settlements during the Viking expansion[1] Scrutinising the Viking Age through the lens of settlement offers a distinct perspective, highlighting their cultural profile distinct from their predatory reputation.[2]
Modern diaspora
The term "Scandinavian diaspora" is also used to describe more recent emigrations and emigrants originating in one or more of the countries of Scandinavia.[3][4][5]
Swedish diaspora
Swedish diaspora communities include:
Finnish diaspora
People emigrated to the United States, Canada, Ghana, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Italy, Ireland, United Kingdom, Pakistan, Sweden, Brazil and Argentina.[6][7] They have also started Utopian communities in places including Australia, Brazil, Paraguay, France, Cuba, and Sierra Leone.
Finnish diaspora communities include:
- Finnish Americans
- Finnish Argentine
- Finnish Australians
- Finnish Brazilians
- Finnish Canadians
- Forest Finns (Norway & Sweden)
- Kven people (Norway)
- Ingrian Finns (Russia)
- Sweden Finns
- Tornedalians (Sweden)
- Finns in Switzerland
Danish diaspora
Danish diaspora communities include:
Icelandic diaspora
Icelandic diaspora communities include:
- Icelandic Americans
- Icelandic Australians
- Icelandic Canadians
- Icelanders in Sweden
Norwegian diaspora
Norwegian diaspora communities include:
- Norwegian Americans
- Norwegian Australians
- Norwegian Canadians
- Norwegians in Finland
- Norwegian New Zealanders
- Kola Norwegians (Russia)
- Norwegian South Africans
- Norwegian diaspora in Sweden
The first modern Norwegian settlement in the United States was Norwegian Ridge, in what is now Spring Grove, Minnesota.[8]
See also
References
- Peter Heather (4 March 2010). Empires and barbarians: the fall of Rome and the birth of Europe. Oxford University Press US. p. 497. ISBN 978-0-19-973560-0. Retrieved 30 March 2011.
- Abrams,L. (2012) "Diaspora and Identity in the Viking Age", Early Medieval Europe,vol.20(1), pp.17.38
- Hammill, Faye. "Martha Ostenso, Literary History, and the Scandinavian Diaspora". #196 (Spring 2008) Diasporic Women's Writing. Canadian Literature. Retrieved 30 March 2011.
...the Scandinavian diaspora disrupts nationalist literary histories by crossing political and cultural boundaries between America and Canada.
- Campbell, James T. (31 August 2009). Race, Nation, and Empire in American History. p. 91. ISBN 978-0-8078-5828-8.
My story begins with a fragment in the history of the Scandinavian diaspora. About 1886, a young woman named Marie Hansen left Denmark, displaced by the after-effects of the Dano-Prussian War, and settled in Chicago.
- Lien, Marianne E; Marit Melhuus. Holding worlds together: ethnographies of knowing and belonging. p. 13. ISBN 1-84545-250-X.
Lund's Scandinavian diaspora informants from the USA (Chapter 4) re-embed themselves through recounting their genealogies.
- Michael G. Karni (1981). Finnish Diaspora: United States. Multicultural History Society of Ontario.
- Michael G. Karni (1981). Finnish Diaspora: Canada, South America, Africa, Australia and Sweden. Multicultural History Society of Ontario.
- Chad Muller (2002). Spring Grove: Minnesota's first Norwegian settlement. Arcadia Publishing. ISBN 0-7385-1949-9.
Spring Grove: Minnesota's First Norwegian Settlement is a tribute to the state's earliest Norwegian emigrants, and to generations of Norwegian Americans who have made this small farming community amongst deep valleys, fjord-like bluffs, and ...