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Migration and Contemporary Swedish Food

Modern

Postwar labour migration from Finland, Italy, Greece, Yugoslavia and Turkey; refugee arrivals from Chile, Iran, Iraq, Somalia, Eritrea, Bosnia, Afghanistan and Syria; and later movement from Poland, Thailand and across the EU. ⚠ THIS IS SWEDISH FOOD CULTURE. The kebabpizza and the tunnbrödsrulle are Swedish inventions out of that contact; falafel, Syrian bakeries and Thai restaurants are ordinary in towns of every size; and the origin of each tradition is named rather than erased.

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Languages: Turkish

What is recorded

  • Postwar labour migration and later refugee and EU movement are part of contemporary Swedish food culture, and dishes such as kebabpizza and the tunnbrödsrulle are Swedish inventions arising from that contact. Origins are named; these foodways are neither erased into a generic Swedishness nor excluded from it. documented

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