Scandinavian Mexicans
Scandinavian Mexicans are citizens of Mexico of full or partial Scandinavian ancestry. There is a Scandinavian diaspora in Mexico. The Scandinavian countries (Sweden, Denmark and Norway) have an intertwined history and shared cultural traits.
History
The first notable Dane in what would become Mexico was Fray Jacobo Daciano, a younger brother of Christian II of Denmark, who settled in Michoacán in the mid-16th century, evangelized the region and became known for his love of the native Tarascans.[1] In 1841 while studying the plants of southern Mexico, Danish scientist Federico Miguel Liebman came across a small group of natives in Oaxaca that spoke an archaic form of Danish.[2] Through interviews with the oldest members of the community, Liebman came to conclude that these individuals were the descendants of Danish pirates that had been abandoned by their crew in the late 16th century and had entered into unions with native women.[2] Swedes have been present in Mexico since at least the 1890s.[3] The National Archival Services of Norway has records of a few individual Norweigens in Mexico in the early 20th century.[4]
According to the Instituto Nacional de Migracion, in 2009 there were 633 Sweden-born residents in Mexico.[5] In the same year there were 404 Denmark-born residents and 240 Norway-born residents.[5] The majority of these individuals lived in the Mexico City Metropolitan Area.
Notable individuals
See also
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