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Racial Capitalism
In the Shadow of the Swedish Model
Series: - Studies in Critical Social Sciences, Volume: 358
The anthology brings racial capitalism to bear on the archetype of welfare capitalism â the Swedish model, referred to as the âNordic Modelâ. We 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 Ãberg, 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 à lund.
Contributors are:
Anuhya Bobba, Nicolina Ewards Ãberg, 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 à lund.
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: "Capturing Displacement" International Journal of Urban and Regional Research
49 (4). 852-875.
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 (Routledge, 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 (Routledge).
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 (Routledge, 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 (Routledge).
Notes on Contributors
1 Introduction: Why Reproductive Racial Capitalism? Why Now?
âIrene Molina, Diana Mulinari and Anders Neergaard
Part 1 Racism(s)
2 Exclusionary and Exploitative Racism: Two Facets of Contemporary Racial Ideologies
âMartin Wolgast and Sima Nurali Wolgast
3 White Ignorance Maintains Racial Capitalism: Shock towards Labor Exploitation in the Finnish Food Systems
âDionysia Kang
4 Racial Capitalism, Swedish Trade Unions, and the Wages of Whiteness
âPaula Mulinari and Anders Neergaard
5 Capitalist Racism as âOccupational Hazardâ and Personal Responsibility: Immigrant Entrepreneurship in Finland
âAnuhya Bobba
6 Theories on Resistance, Visions of Hope
âDiana Mulinari
Part 2 Borders
7 The Logistics of Settlement in Racial Capitalism: Migrant Dispersal, Algorithms and the Struggle for Relationality
âKarin Krifors
8 Refugee Settlement Policy within a Racial Capitalist Housing Market
âNicolina Ewards Ãberg 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
âClaudia Tazreiter
Part 3 Transformations and Resistances
10 Easter Riots and the Politics of Autocratization in Reconquista Sweden
âEdda Manga and Mattias Gardell
11 The Trade Union Confederation, Neoliberalism and the Emergence of an Ethno-racist Sweden: Is Trade Union Anti-racism Possible?
âAnders Neergaard
12 Neo-apartheid Metropolis: Racial Capitalism and Subaltern Struggles in Urban Sweden
âCarl-Ulrik Schierup, Aleksandra à lund and Ilhan Kellecioglu
Index
1 Introduction: Why Reproductive Racial Capitalism? Why Now?
âIrene Molina, Diana Mulinari and Anders Neergaard
Part 1 Racism(s)
2 Exclusionary and Exploitative Racism: Two Facets of Contemporary Racial Ideologies
âMartin Wolgast and Sima Nurali Wolgast
3 White Ignorance Maintains Racial Capitalism: Shock towards Labor Exploitation in the Finnish Food Systems
âDionysia Kang
4 Racial Capitalism, Swedish Trade Unions, and the Wages of Whiteness
âPaula Mulinari and Anders Neergaard
5 Capitalist Racism as âOccupational Hazardâ and Personal Responsibility: Immigrant Entrepreneurship in Finland
âAnuhya Bobba
6 Theories on Resistance, Visions of Hope
âDiana Mulinari
Part 2 Borders
7 The Logistics of Settlement in Racial Capitalism: Migrant Dispersal, Algorithms and the Struggle for Relationality
âKarin Krifors
8 Refugee Settlement Policy within a Racial Capitalist Housing Market
âNicolina Ewards Ãberg 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
âClaudia Tazreiter
Part 3 Transformations and Resistances
10 Easter Riots and the Politics of Autocratization in Reconquista Sweden
âEdda Manga and Mattias Gardell
11 The Trade Union Confederation, Neoliberalism and the Emergence of an Ethno-racist Sweden: Is Trade Union Anti-racism Possible?
âAnders Neergaard
12 Neo-apartheid Metropolis: Racial Capitalism and Subaltern Struggles in Urban Sweden
âCarl-Ulrik Schierup, Aleksandra à lund and Ilhan Kellecioglu
Index
The general reader is expected to be undergraduate and post-graduate and scholars interesting in welfare capitalism broadly defined. More specific readers will be post-graduate students and scholars of the Nordic in social sciences and humanities, and in addition undergraduate and post-graduate students in courses at the universities of Gothenburg, Linköping, Lund, Malmö, Stockholm, Södertörn, Uppsala, where authors of the edited volume are active. We also have international networks and scholars that teach in areas of relevance for this volume, IMISCOE being the most important.