This article builds on two interview studies on racial profiling conducted in Finland and Sweden. It examines policing practices in order to elaborate on the understanding of what we define as the ‘racial welfare state’. The analysis draws attention to the ways that bordering practices reproduce racial orders, within and beyond the nation-state. The embeddedness of the Nordic region in the western sphere, with its colonial legacies, is highlighted through the empirical material that focuses on the consequences of internal and external migration controls, as well as more general police stop-and-search practices. The study underlines the need to investigate racial profiling as a practice that enforces an imagined community based not on whiteness in general, but on Nordic whiteness in particular as the norm against which the bodies of ‘others’ are measured.

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In this qualitative study, I examine, through the lens of repression, Swedish Muslims' experiences of being targeted by authorities in the latter's attempts to prevent terrorism. In an effort to comprehend the full force of this repression-as coercion in its physical and violent sense, but also in its more subtle and consensual forms-I interweave various Marxist and postcolonial perspectives. The study discusses internal aspects of repression, as well as its external qualities, expanding our understanding of how repression occurs between bodies and within society. I develop the concept of "repressive consent" as a means of grasping situations in which people are influenced to undertake activities against their will. Empirically, the article focuses on experiences of disproportionate security controls and encounters with the Swedish Security Service (Säpo). The material reveals both painful and everyday consequences. For some individuals, becoming a target in the War on Terror may have, as the informants of the study indicate, devastating consequences; for others, it may feel like a friendly chat.

leandro schclarek mulinari "Ni är inte välkomna i vårt fina Malmö" Premisser för samhällsgemenskap i kamp mot organiserad brottslighet "You are not welcome in our lovely Malmo": Conditions for belonging in mobilization against organized crime Several murders occurred in the Swedish city of Malmö between 2011 and 2012 . Against this backdrop, the municipality and the police initiate a public campaign . The aim is to mobilize the city's population against organized crime . In this study the ideology of the initiative is analysed . It is argued that the representation of organized crime as nurtured by the black economy can be read as an example of neoliberal revanchist city agenda, albeit an ambivalent one . The role of groups working in the low-price sphere of the economy becomes that of a threatening projection, while a consumption ideology regulates the boundaries of belonging .

Sociologisk Forskning bad tre samhällsvetenskapliga forskare, verksamma i Sverige och USA, att svara på några frågor om rörelseprotesterna under parollen Black Lives Matter (BLM), antisvart rasism och dödligt polisvåld mot svarta människor. Deras svar grundar sig i egen och andras forskning inom områden som relationen mellan rasifiering och kriminalisering, postkoloniala perspektiv och kritisk kriminologi, erfarenheter av polisiär kontroll bland människor med afrikanskt ursprung i Stockholm, Malmö och New York samt sociala rörelser och politisk aktivism – särskilt olika former av antirasism.En av tidskriftens redaktörer, Lena Sohl, redigerade svaren till ett gemensamt samtal, där de tre forskarna kunde ändra och göra tillägg i sina egna svar. Den slutgiltiga texten färdigställdes den 10 december 2020.De medverkande forskarna är Jan Jämte, statsvetare och lektor i samhällskunskap vid Örebro universitet, som forskar om sociala rörelser och politisk aktivism, i synnerhet olika former av antirasism; Jasmine Kelekay, doktorand i sociologi vid University of California, Santa Barbara och gästdoktorand vid Kriminologiska institutionen, Stockholms universitet samt Centrum för mångvetenskaplig forskning om rasism vid Uppsala universitet, vars avhandling handlar om relationen mellan rasifiering och kriminalisering, med fokus på konstruktioner av svarthet och polisiär kontroll av svarta människor i Sverige; samt Leandro Schclarek Mulinari, doktor i kriminologi, vars forskning uppehåller sig vid skärningspunkten mellan kriminalitet och kriminalisering, i synnerhet förhållandet mellan denna skärningspunkt och frågor om rasism.