A recently published Migration Map seeks to alert the indigenous population to the purported replacement of Swedes by immigrants. Richard Orange – a replacer and father of two more replacers – reports that the typical native nonetheless remains unaware of the extent of our progress.

Migrationskartan, as the culturally nationalistic Sweden Democrats party has named its graphic, illustrates with clarity the regions of the country where we are now effectively in control.

As the party’s MEP Charlie Weimers declared in a statement accompanying the release of the map, our numbers have doubled over the past 25 years and we now constitute 20 percent of the populace.

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Weimers also claimed that the map shows that Sweden is “undergoing a dramatic change and that the population is being replaced.”

In order to chart how well our replacement of the Swedish population is going, here’s a status report.

Where have our efforts been most successful so far?

Our takeover of the capital is, as the map makes clear, near completion, with replacers (according to the Sweden Democrats’ absolutely reasonable and totally defensible definition of “being born abroad or having at least one foreign-born parent”), now constituting a majority in 11 out of 26 municipalities in Stockholm Region.

These include Solna, home to the prestigious Karolinska Institutet medical university and the Haga Palace, and Sundbyberg, home to the Migration Agency.

The map reveals the pincer movement through which we have attained a majority in the two most northeasterly municipalities, Haparanda and Övertorneå, using replacers from neighbouring Finland, and through which we have attained a majority in Malmö, the southernmost city.

It also reveals the disappointing progress made in Gothenburg, the second city, where replacers remain marginally outnumbered by the indigenous population.

**Political infiltration far advanced **

Thankfully, the map only illustrates geographical and and demographic changes and as such has not alerted the population to the extent to which we have infiltrated institutions.

Starting with the ministers, we now control climate policy through Romina Pourmokhtari (Persian-born parents), cultural policy through Parisa Liljestrand (born in Iran to Kurdish parents), education through Simona Mohamsson (born in Germany to Lebanese/Israeli Arab parents) and aid and trade through Benjamin Dousa (Turkish father).

Three out of eight political parties are currently led by replacers: the Christian Democrats by Ebba Busch (half-Norwegian); the Liberals by Simona Mohamsson; and the Left Party by Nooshi Dadgostar (Iranian parents).

Two of the four party leaders in this picture (and the leaders of three of Sweden’s eight parties) would count towards the Sweden Democrats’ ‘migration map’ statistics. Photo: Caisa Rasmussen/TT

Two of the lead contenders to be the next leader of the largest party, the Social Democrats ‒ Lawen Redar (Iranian parents) and Teresa Carvalho (Portuguese father) ‒ are replacers, as are a number of their high-ranking politicians ‒ former defence minister Peter Hultqvist (Finnish mother), former social security minister Ardalan Shekarabi (born in the UK) and former schools minister Ibrahim Baylan (born in Turkey).

Within the Sweden Democrats party itself, we have several replacers in place - Richard Jomshof (Finnish father) and Dennis Dioukarev (Russian parents). Kent Ekeroth, a Sweden Democrat councillor and former MP, has a Kazakhstani mother.

Cultural dominance

In the cultural sphere, we have also made much progress.

Loreen, the two-time winner of the Eurovision Song Contest so beloved of Swedes, is one of our number (Moroccan parents). In fact, up until 2024 when Sweden gave up entirely and opted to send Norwegian and Finnish entries to Eurovision, half of the previous ten entries had been replacers.

We also make up one-quarter of ABBA (Anni-Frid Lyngstad, born in Norway), and supplied Sweden with one of its most famous singers and poets, Cornelis Vreeswijk (Dutch).

In film, our numbers include Joel Kinnaman (American father), Bianca Kronlöf (Finnish and Swedish-Finnish parents), Rebecca Ferguson (British mother) and Noomi Rapace (Spanish father). Actor Fares Fares is one of us (born in Lebanon), as are his brothers, film director and video game designer Josef Fares and pastry chef Roy Fares.

Speaking of food, we can also count celebrity chefs Zeina Mourtada (born in Sierra Leone) and Camilla Hamid (Egyptian and Moroccan parents) among us.

We also have a hold on Christmas. Ernst Kirchsteiger, the television presenter who has long maintained his central position in traditional festive preparations, is one of us (Austrian-Polish).

As far as the Sweden Democrats are concerned, Kristian Luuk (right), presenter of iconic Swedish TV show På Spåret, is partly responsible for “replacing the Swedish population”. Photo: Björn Larsson Rosvall/TT

Some of Sweden’s most popular TV presenters are among our number, including Kristian Luuk (Estonian parents), Tareq Taylor (British-Palestinian parents), John Taylor (British), Clara Henry (British-Irish father), Keyyo (born in Russia), Arantxa Alvarez (Chilean parents), Christopher O’Regan (Irish father), Ahmed Berhan (Eritrean parents) and Farah Abadi (Palestinian parents).

We’ve also infiltrated comedy, with David Batra (Indian father), Jesper Rönndahl (Danish mother), Nour El-Refai (born in Lebanon), Evelyn Mok (born in Sweden to Chinese parents), Petrina Solange (born in Angola), Kaeli Abdi (Somalian parents) and Özz Nûjen (Kurdish, born in Turkey), to name a few.

The CEO of Swedish radio, Cilla Benkö, is another immigrant by the Sweden Democrats’ definition (father born in Hungary), as is the editor-in-chief of Dagens Nyheter Peter Wolodarski (father born in Poland), not to mention almost the entire staff of The Local.

Let’s not forget sport, where Sweden’s most famous football player Zlatan Ibrahimovic is one of us (Bosniak father, Croatian mother), as is striker Alexander Isak (Eritrean parents). We have also successfully supplied Sweden with two trainers for the Sweden men’s football team (British Graham Potter and Danish Jon Dahl Thomasson) and can count legendary pole-vaulter, Mondo Duplantis (born in USA) among us.

Royalty a beachhead

Years before the “decades of irresponsible migration policy” to which the Sweden Democrats attribute our success, we had already established a preparatory beachhead at the highest level of the Swedish state.

Princess Madeleine’s marriage to the British-American financier Christopher O’Neill was only the latest in a series of operations aimed at infiltrating the royalty.

King Carl Gustaf, Queen Silvia and Crown Princess Victoria are all immigrants replacing the Swedish population, if the Sweden Democrats are to be believed. Photo: Pontus Lundahl/TT

The marriage of her father, King Carl XVI Gustav to Queen Silvia (born to German and Brazilian parents), long ago ensured that the heir to the throne, Crown Princess Victoria, is a replacer by the Sweden Democrats’ definition, as are her siblings Prince Carl Philip and Madeleine.

Sweden’s King Carl XVI Gustav is, of course, himself a replacer (born to a British-German mother).

The infiltration of Swedish royalty goes back further still, however.

That can be traced all the way back to 1818 and the founding of the current royal line by Karl XIV Johan (born Jean-Baptiste Jules Bernadotte in Pau, southern France). He, perhaps, is the original replacer.