Serbs in Norway explained

Group:Serbs in Norway
Population:7,985 (2019 Official Norway estimate)[1] 0.15% of the Norwegian population
Popplace:Oslo
Langs:Norwegian, Serbian
Rels:Predominantly Serbian Orthodox Church
Related:Serbian diaspora

Serbs in Norway (Norwegian: Serber; Serbian: Срби у Норвешкој/Srbi u Norveškoj) are Norwegian citizens and residents of ethnic Serb descent or Serbian-born persons who reside in Norway.

Demographics

The Norwegian census data includes immigrants with country of birth (first-generation) and Norwegian-born with immigrant parentage (second-generation), but does not include ethnicity, thus, the total number of ethnic Serbs in Norway is hard to define. According to 2006 data, there were 10,042 immigrants from Serbia and Montenegro, 2,863 with parents from that country, 12,718 from Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2,104 with parents from that country, 2,566 from Croatia, 449 with parents from that country.[2] In 2001, the number of immigrants from FR Yugoslavia (Serbia and Montenegro) was 15,469.[3] 2017 data lists 6,396 immigrants from Serbia and Norwegian-born descendants.[4]

The Serbian Ministry of Diaspora estimated in 2007 that there was a Serb diaspora community numbering ca. 2,500 people in Norway.[5] This data includes emigrants from Serbia as well as ethnic Serbs or other minorities who view Serbia as their nation-state.

History

See also: Immigration to Norway. Serbs and Serbians have migrated to Norway as guest and migrant workers during Socialist Yugoslavia, and as refugees of the Yugoslav Wars of the 1990s.

See also

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Immigrants and Norwegian-born to immigrant parents. 10 April 2021.
  2. Book: Forgaard, Tanja Seland . Dzamarija, Minja Tea . Innvandring og innvandrere 2006. 2. Innvandrerbefolkningen. 2006. SSB. http://www.ssb.no/a/publikasjoner/pdf/sa83/kap2.pdf. 19–58.
  3. Web site: Innvandrere og norskfødte med innvandrerforeldre, 1. januar 2006. SSB. 2006.
  4. Web site: Immigrants and Norwegian-born to immigrant parents. 2017. Statistics Norway. SSB.no.
  5. Web site: IOM. Migration in Serbia: A Country Profile 2008. 2008. International Organisation for Migration. 24.