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This anthology brings racial capitalism to bear on the archetype of welfare capitalism – the Swedish model, referred to as the “Nordic Model”.
The contributors do this with the aim of qualifying and challenging some institutionalised understandings of welfare capitalism represented by Sweden and, to a lesser extent, Finland. Few studies have focused on continental Europe or the Nordic region. In this edited volume, the focus is on theoretically inspired and empirically grounded analyses of Sweden in the Nordic context, exploring the Swedish capitalist welfare model from a perspective that places processes of racialisation and racial regimes at centre stage.
Contributors are: Anuhya Bobba, Nicolina Ewards Öberg, Mattias Gardell, Dionysia Jia Ying Kang, Ilhan Kellecioglu, Karin Krifors, Edda Manga, Irene Molina, Diana Mulinari, Paula Maria Mulinari, Anders Neergaard, Carl-Ulrik Schierup, Claudia Tazreiter, Sima Nurali Wolgast, Martin Nurali Wolgast and Aleksandra Ålund.
Irene Molina, Professor in Human Geography at the Institute for Housing and Urban Research, Uppsala University. Her main areas of interest are the dynamics of racialization and urban segregation. Among her publications is “Capturing Displacement” (2025).
Diana Mulinari, Professor Emerita of Gender Studies, University of Lund, Sweden. Her work is inspired by anticolonial feminist traditions, A recent publication (co-author) is “The impossibility of social inclusion: The ethno-racist welfare discourse in Sweden” (2025).
Anders Neergaard, Professor at REMESO, The Institute for Research on Migration, Ethnicity and Society, Linköping University with research focusing on power, inequality, resistance and social movements. Recent publications are “The Power of Silence: Variations in the Reproduction of Racial Capitalism Among White Male-dominated Trade Unions in Sweden” (2024).
Notes on Contributors
1 Introduction: Why Reproductive Racial Capitalism? Why Now?
Irene Molina, Diana Mulinari and Anders Neergaard
Part 1 Racism(s)
2 Exclusionary and Exploitative Racism: Two Facets of Contemporary Racial Ideologies
Martin Wolgast and Sima Nurali Wolgast
3 White Ignorance Maintains Racial Capitalism: Shock towards Labor Exploitation in the Finnish Food Systems
Dionysia Kang
4 Racial Capitalism, Swedish Trade Unions, and the Wages of Whiteness
Paula Mulinari and Anders Neergaard
5 Capitalist Racism as “Occupational Hazard” and Personal Responsibility: Immigrant Entrepreneurship in Finland
Anuhya Bobba
6 Theories on Resistance, Visions of Hope
Diana Mulinari
Part 2 Borders
7 The Logistics of Settlement in Racial Capitalism: Migrant Dispersal, Algorithms and the Struggle for Relationality
Karin Krifors
8 Refugee Settlement Policy within a Racial Capitalist Housing Market
Nicolina Ewards Öberg and Irene Molina
9 Ghosts of the Afterlife of Violence: the Traces of Racial Capitalism in the Carceral Practices of Remote Detention and Punishment of Refugees
Claudia Tazreiter
Part 3 Transformations and Resistances
10 Easter Riots and the Politics of Autocratization in Reconquista Sweden
Edda Manga and Mattias Gardell
11 The Trade Union Confederation, Neoliberalism and the Emergence of an Ethno-racist Sweden: Is Trade Union Anti-racism Possible?
Anders Neergaard
12 Neo-apartheid Metropolis: Racial Capitalism and Subaltern Struggles in Urban Sweden
Carl-Ulrik Schierup, Aleksandra Ålund and Ilhan Kellecioglu
Index