Kurds in Sweden explained

Group:Kurds in Sweden
Population:Approximately 100,000 [1]
Popplace:Huddinge, Botkyrka, Västerås, Gothenburg, Örebro, Stockholm, Uppsala, Dalarna, Karlstad, Malmö, Borlänge, Falköping
Langs:Kurdish, Swedish (some knowledge of Turkish, Arabic and Persian)
Related:Kurdish diaspora

Kurds in Sweden (;) may refer to people born in or residing in the Sweden of Kurdish origin.

Most Kurdish people in Sweden live in the capital Stockholm or in Uppsala.[2] A majority of Kurdish political refugees choose Sweden as their host country and therefore they have a cultural presence in Sweden.[3]

Chronological Kurdish arrivals to Sweden

Political representation

In October 2019, thousands of Swedish Kurds staged a protest in Stockholm over Turkey's military operation in northeastern Syria.[8] In Sweden there are several MP of Kurdish descent such Amineh Kakabaveh, Gulan Avci, Lawen Redar, Sara Gille or Kadir Kasirga.[9] Kakabaveh was delivered the majority vote for that the Social Democrat Magdalena Andersson would become Swedish Prime Minister in 2021.[10] As in May 2022 Sweden made an accession bid to join NATO, Turkey demanded that Sweden ends its alleged support for the Kurdish People's Defense Units (YPG) and Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK).[11]

Controversies

Honor killings

The 26-year-old Kurdish woman Fadime Şahindal was murdered by her father in an honour killing in 2002.[12] [13] Kurdish organizations were criticized by prime minister Göran Persson for not doing enough to prevent honour killings.[12] Pela Atroshi was a Kurdish girl who was shot by her uncle in a brutal honour killing.[14] The murder of Pela and Fadime gave rise to the formation of the human rights organization Never Forget Pela and Fadime (GAPF). GAPF is a politically and religiously independent and secular nonprofit organization working against honor-related violence and oppression. The organization's name is taken from Pela Atroshi and Fadime Sahindal which is Sweden's best-known and high-profile cases of honor killings.[15] The honor killing of Sara, an Iraqi Kurdish girl, was the first publicized honor killing in Sweden.[16] These three prominent cases of Sara, Pela and Fadime, brought the notion of honour killings into Swedish discourse.[12]

See also

Notes and References

  1. Web site: NATO bid reignites Sweden's dispute with Turkey over Kurds . 24 May 2022 .
  2. Web site: Stilla protest mot massaker. 19 August 2017. dead. https://archive.today/20120710102747/http://mobil.hd.se/skane/2012/01/08/stilla-protest-mot-massaker/. 10 July 2012.
  3. News: Sverige är världsledande på kurdisk litteratur. Författeren. saradistribution.com. 1994.
  4. Rohat Alakom - Kurderna, fyrtio år i Sverige s.98
  5. Book: Rohat, Alakom . Kurderna : fyrtio år i Sverige (1965-2005) . 2007 . Serkland . 978-91-976363-1-5 . The Kurds: forty years in Sweden (1965-2005) . 637638581.
  6. Web site: Irakkriget och de mänskliga rättigheterna . PalmeCenter.se. 2008-06-24 . https://web.archive.org/web/20071025153013/http://www.palmecenter.se/RegionerOchLander/Mellanostern/Irak/Artiklar/Irakkrigetochdemanskligarattigheterna.aspx . 2007-10-25 . dead . 7 October 2004.
  7. Chatelard, Géraldine, Centre on Migration, Policy and Society, Working Paper No. 68, University of Oxford, 2009, Migration from Iraq between the Gulf and the Iraq wars (1990-2003):Historical and socio-spatial dimensions
  8. Web site: Kurder i Stockholm: ”Ska skrika så hela världen hör”. Svenska Dagbladet. sv . 10 October 2019.
  9. Web site: Six Kurds elected to Swedish parliament .
  10. News: Milne . Richard . 2022-06-06 . Sweden must not bow to Turkey over Nato bid, Kurdish-born MP warns . Financial Times . 2022-06-06.
  11. News: 2022-05-29 . NATO membership: Swedish Kurds concerned about Ankara's bargaining . en . Le Monde.fr . 2022-06-06.
  12. Cultural dialogues in the good society: The case of honour killings in Sweden. Zenia. Hellgren. Barbara. Hobson. 1 September 2008. Ethnicities. 8. 3. 385–404. 10.1177/1468796808092449. 210759790.
  13. News: Kurd killing sparks ethnic debate . CNN . 5 February 2002 . 4 May 2010.
  14. Web site: Australian links to brutal honour killing. 25 April 2008. 19 August 2017. 27 February 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20150227175341/http://www.news.com.au/national/australian-links-to-brutal-honour-killing/story-e6frfkp9-1111116166086. dead.
  15. Web site: Riksorganisationen GAPF - Glöm aldrig Pela och Fadime. 19 August 2017.
  16. Web site: Distrust | RSF. www.russellsage.org.

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