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Swedish nationality law determines entitlement to Swedish citizenship. Citizenship of Sweden is based primarily on the principle of jus sanguinis . In other words, citizenship is conferred primarily by birth to a Swedish parent, irrespective of place of birth.
Jus sanguinis (English: / dʒ ʌ s ˈ s æ ŋ ɡ w ɪ n ɪ s / juss SANG-gwin-iss [1] or / j uː s-/ yooss -, [2] Latin: [juːs ˈsaŋɡwɪnɪs]), meaning 'right of blood', is a principle of nationality law by which nationality is determined or acquired by the nationality of one or both parents.
As of 2020, the percentage of inhabitants with a foreign background in Sweden had risen to 25.9 percent In 2020, population growth in Sweden was primarily driven by people with a foreign background, 98.8 percent (51,073 people) and persons with a Swedish background accounted for 1.2 percent (633 persons) of the population increase. [8]
List of Swedish people: This is a list of lists of notable Swedes. By country or ethnicity. List of Sami people; List of Lebanese people in Sweden;
Nationality law can be broadly categorized into three principles: jus soli, or right by birth on the soil; jus sanguinis, or right of the blood; and; jus matrimonii, or right of marriage. Laws may be based on any one of these principles, but they commonly reflect a combination of all three principles.
The majority of the population are ethnic Swedes, or people who can trace most of their ethnicity to Sweden going back at least 12 generations. The Sweden Finns are a large ethnic minority comprising approximately 50,000 along the Swedish-Finnish border, and 450,000 first and second-generation immigrated ethnic Finns , mainly living in the ...
Swedish national statistics [9] collect data on country of birth, citizenship and parents' citizenship, but not on ethnicity or parents' country of birth. [ 10 ] [ 11 ] According to Statistics Sweden , as of 2016, there are 110,758 citizens of African nations residing in Sweden. [ 12 ]
Sweden's current anti-discrimination laws have eliminated the term race, replacing the term with "ethnicity" to denote "national or ethnic origin, skin colour or other similar circumstances". [26] Michael McEachrane in a 2018 study considers the exclusion of the term race means Sweden is not able to "recognise, monitor, or address structural ...