Abstract
Swedes are not usually thought of as migrants. Despite this belief, between 250,000 and 550,000 Swedes, out of a population of 9.5 million, live abroad in roughly 150 countries.1 The majority of Swedes migrate to other Nordic countries, to other European countries or to the US. A majority of these migrants are women (Eriksson, 2008). In general, Swedes migrating ‘west-bound’ become settlers, while migration ‘east-bound’ is dominated by (male) expatriates living and working for a few years abroad and then later returning to Sweden (Skarman, 2009).
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Lundström, C. (2014). A Multi-Sited Ethnography of Whiteness. In: White Migrations. Migration, Diasporas and Citizenship Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137289193_2
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