Portuguese in Iceland
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Victor Pálsson
, possibly the best known
Icelander
of Portuguese descent
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Total population |
1,528 [1] [2] |
Languages |
Icelandic , Portuguese |
Religion |
Predominantly Christianity ( Roman Catholicism ), Irreligion |
Related ethnic groups |
Other Portuguese people , Portuguese in Denmark , Portuguese in Finland , Portuguese in Norway , Portuguese in Sweden |
Portuguese in Iceland ( Icelandic : Portúgölfsk fólk á Íslandi ) are citizens and residents of Iceland who are of Portuguese descent.
Portuguese people in Iceland (also known as Portuguese Icelanders / Icelandic-Portuguese Community or, in Portuguese , known as Portugueses na Islândia / Comunidade portuguesa na Islândia / Luso-islandeses ) are the citizens or residents of Iceland whose ethnic origins lie in Portugal .
Portuguese Icelanders are Portuguese-born citizens with a Icelandic citizenship or Icelandic-born citizens of Portuguese ancestry or citizenship .
About 1,406 Portuguese people livie in Iceland as of 2022. In addition, 122 people of Portuguese descent have acquired Icelandic citizenship since 2000, for a total of at least 1,528 people of recent Portuguese background. The Portuguese represent 0.39% of the country's population . [3] [2]
History
The Portuguese community in the country has experienced considerable growth, especially after Brexit . Portuguese emigrants are in fact leaving the United Kingdom for Nordic countries : most of them are highly qualified and aged between 20 and 40, looking for better quality of life and economic stability. [4] [5] Portuguese emigration has increased particularly in the last years and in 2022 alone 360 Portuguese entered the country. [6] The two countries maintain a strong relationship of mutual respect and are both NATO members. [7]
Footballers
In recent years many Portuguese international footballers have moved to Iceland to play for Norwegian clubs : in 2023 these included Braima Candé ( Knattspyrnufélagið Ægir ), Ivo Braz ( Knattspyrnufélagið Ægir ), Tiago Fernandes ( Fram Reykjavík ), Rafael Victor ( Njarðvík ) and Rodrigo Dias ( KÁ Ásvellir ). [8] [9]
Remittances
The Portuguese community in Iceland retains strong ties with its homeland and, between 2000 and 2021, it has sent approximately 7.1 million euros ( € ) to Portugal in remittances . In the same timeframe, Icelanders in Portugal (numbering around 170 individuals) [10] have sent approximately €0.97 million to Iceland. [11]
Portuguese language
As of today, the Portuguese are part of a wider Portuguese-speaking community in Iceland, comprising around 170 people from PALOP countries (the majority being from Angola or from Cape Verde ), Timor-Leste or Macau and around 290 Brazilians . [12] [13] [14]
People from CPLP countries thus number around 2,000 people, accounting for 0.52% of the population of Iceland . Despite being – in absolute numbers – the smallest immigrant community of people coming from CPLP countries amongst the ones found in Nordic countries , people from Portuguese-speaking countries have, in Iceland, their largest share on the total population when looking at the countries of the Nordic Council .
In Denmark there are around 11,000 CPLP nationals (0.19% of the country's population ), [15] [16] [17] [15] in Finland there are a little more than 5,000 CPLP nationals (0.09% of the country's population ), [18] [19] while in Norway there are around 21,000 CPLP nationals (0.38% of the population ) [20] [13] [21] [22] and in Sweden 23,700 (0.22% of the population ). [23] [24] [13] [25]
Notable people
- Victor Pálsson (1991): Icelandic footballer
See also
References
- ↑ "Statistics Iceland: Overview" .
- 1 2 "Observatório da Emigração" . observatorioemigracao.pt (in Portuguese) . Retrieved 23 July 2023 .
- ↑ "Statistics Iceland: Overview" . Statistics Iceland . Retrieved 23 July 2023 .
- ↑ Ferreira, Marta Leite (28 June 2023). "Novos emigrantes portugueses trocam o Reino Unido pelos países nórdicos: "Parece uma redistribuição", diz Observatório" . PÚBLICO (in Portuguese) . Retrieved 23 July 2023 .
- ↑ Lusa (15 February 2022). "Nunca houve tantos portugueses a emigrar para a Dinamarca" . PÚBLICO (in Portuguese) . Retrieved 23 July 2023 .
- ↑ "More Portuguese moving to Iceland" . www.theportugalnews.com . Retrieved 23 July 2023 .
- ↑ "Portugal and Iceland share common interests and values" .
- ↑ "Leikmaður – Ivo Alexandre Pereira Braz" . www.ksi.is (in Icelandic) . Retrieved 24 July 2023 .
- ↑ "Leikskýrsla: KÁ – Álftanes – Knattspyrnusamband Íslands" . www.ksi.is (in Icelandic) . Retrieved 24 July 2023 .
- ↑ "Sefstat" (PDF) .
- ↑ "Observatório da Emigração" . observatorioemigracao.pt (in Portuguese) . Retrieved 28 July 2023 .
- ↑ "Population by country of birth, sex and age 1 January 1998–2022" . PxWeb . Retrieved 23 July 2023 .
- 1 2 3 "Brasileiros no exterior" (PDF) .
- ↑ "Foreign citizens gaining Icelandic citizenship by former citizenship, sex and age 1991–2021" . PxWeb . Retrieved 23 July 2023 .
- 1 2 "Population figures" . www.dst.dk . Retrieved 23 July 2023 .
- ↑ "Statistikbanken" . www.statbank.dk . Retrieved 23 July 2023 .
- ↑ "Dinamarca" . Portal Diplomático (in European Portuguese) . Retrieved 23 July 2023 .
- ↑ "Finnish citizens with dual nationality by Second nationality, Year, Sex, Age and Information" . PxWeb . Retrieved 23 July 2023 .
- ↑ "Population 31.12. by Region, Nationality, Age, Sex, Year and Information" . PxWeb . Retrieved 23 July 2023 .
- ↑ "Immigrants in Norway" .
- ↑ Pisco, Paulo (13 March 2020). "Os portugueses na Noruega" . BOM DIA (in Portuguese) . Retrieved 23 July 2023 .
- ↑ "Statistics Norway" . SSB . 19 July 2023 . Retrieved 23 July 2023 .
- ↑ "Population by country of birth, age and sex. Year 2000 – 2022" . Statistikdatabasen . Retrieved 23 July 2023 .
- ↑ "Statistics Sweden" . Statistiska Centralbyrån . Retrieved 23 July 2023 .
- ↑ "Observatório da Emigração" . observatorioemigracao.pt (in Portuguese) . Retrieved 23 July 2023 .
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