Portuguese in Iceland

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Icelandic Portuguese
Luso-islandeses (Portuguese)
"Portúgalskt fólk á Íslandi (Icelandic)
Flag of Iceland.svg Flag of Portugal.svg
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Victor Pálsson, possibly the best known Icelander of Portuguese descent
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 : Portúgalskt fólk á Íslandi) are citizens and residents of Iceland who are of Portuguese descent.

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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 an 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] 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 25,300 CPLP nationals (0.38% of the population) [20] [13] [21] [22] and in Sweden 26,700 (0.25% of the population). [23] [24] [13] [25]

Notable people

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References

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  2. 1 2 "Observatório da Emigração". observatorioemigracao.pt (in Portuguese). Retrieved 23 July 2023.
  3. ↑ "Statistics Iceland: Overview". Statistics Iceland. Retrieved 23 July 2023.
  4. ↑ 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.
  5. ↑ Lusa (15 February 2022). "Nunca houve tantos portugueses a emigrar para a Dinamarca". PÚBLICO (in Portuguese). Retrieved 23 July 2023.
  6. ↑ "More Portuguese moving to Iceland". www.theportugalnews.com. Retrieved 23 July 2023.
  7. ↑ "Portugal and Iceland share common interests and values".
  8. ↑ "Leikmaður – Ivo Alexandre Pereira Braz". www.ksi.is (in Icelandic). Retrieved 24 July 2023.
  9. ↑ "Leikskýrsla: KÁ – Álftanes – Knattspyrnusamband Íslands". www.ksi.is (in Icelandic). Retrieved 24 July 2023.
  10. ↑ "Sefstat" (PDF).
  11. ↑ "Observatório da Emigração". observatorioemigracao.pt (in Portuguese). Retrieved 28 July 2023.
  12. ↑ "Population by country of birth, sex and age 1 January 1998–2022". PxWeb. Retrieved 23 July 2023.
  13. 1 2 3 "Brasileiros no exterior" (PDF).
  14. ↑ "Foreign citizens gaining Icelandic citizenship by former citizenship, sex and age 1991–2021". PxWeb. Retrieved 23 July 2023.
  15. ↑ "Population figures". www.dst.dk. Retrieved 23 July 2023.
  16. ↑ "Statistikbanken". www.statbank.dk. Retrieved 23 July 2023.
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  18. ↑ "Finnish citizens with dual nationality by Second nationality, Year, Sex, Age and Information". PxWeb. Retrieved 23 July 2023.
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