The chapter sets out from a discussion of a so-called ‘Swedish exceptionalism’ (Schierup and Ålund, 2011) in terms of a changing character of power and governance. From there we take a step back to a principled discussion of ‘racial capitalism’; a concept that in Black Marxism Cedric Robinson (2000) picked up from the South African debate on apartheid in the 1970s (e.g. Wolpe, 1972; Alexander, 1979; Nkosi, 1973). This, we argue, was a debate with potential for reaching an understanding of what we call the ‘neo-apartheid city’ related to today’s Swedish social and political-economic urban reality. Proceeding from there we record segregation, racial stigmatisation, predatory housing policies and precarious labour, conditioning livelihoods in Sweden’s most disadvantaged urban neighbourhoods. We reflect on the positionality and voices of the subaltern, confronted by epistemic violence under conditions of an expropriative racial capitalism, reproduced by political discourse and institutional practice. We offer an approach to subaltern struggles centred on a local case, focusing on movements contending the financialization of housing and the precarization of labour.

What is to be done? What can be viable strate­gies of contention in the current conjuncture? The relative lack of progress of movement activism and wishful utopian imaginings may constitute pieces of learning on what ‘realiz­able utopias’ could indeed be; that is, in transforming ‘the no-where of utopia into the now-here of creating emancipatory alternatives of the world as it. This is, on the background of pre­dicaments concerning ‘civil society’s’ globally ordained endeavours to impact on premises for the global governance of migration, a key topic for a search for radical bottom-up alternatives carried forth by the World Social Forum on Migrations. The moral, theoretical and analytical core is an ambition to launch a hetero­dox interrogation on how radical imaginaries – unorthodox and ‘unauthorised’ visions of alternative futures – contest dominant migration regimes and bor­der politics amid crisis, structured along discursive, organisational, and spatial axes.

The article discusses empirical evidence and theoretical perspectives on structurally andspatially ingrained racial capitalism, dispossession, and precarisation in what is identified as‘neo-apartheid’ Sweden. Theoretically, the argument rests on a critical re-engagement of thenotions of ‘racial capitalism’ and ‘neo-apartheid’ in contemporary critical research, inspired,historically, by rich research on racial capitalism in South Africa under apartheid. The argumentis illustrated, empirically, by a scrutiny of processes of segregation, racial stigmatisation, and‘the return of primitive accumulation’ reflected in predatory housing policies and superexploitationof labour, conditioning livelihoods and opportunities of subaltern Others indisadvantaged urban neighbourhoods. Through a local case in the region of Järvafältet inmetropolitan Stockholm, the paper addresses subaltern struggles contesting these realities ofracial capitalism in a society that used to be an international showpiece of social equality andinclusive diversity policy.

Kritisk blick på diskriminering av migranter och etniska minoriteter i en motsägelsefull svensk utveckling. Kapitlet beskriver hur tillämpningen av 1970talets mål för svensk reformpolitik avseende migration och integration i en mångkulturell och välfärdsstatlig ande komt att konfronteras med växande motsättningar mellan ideologi och politisk-institutionella praktiker. Det som en gång framstod som ett framsynt inkluderande välfärdssamhälle står idag vid ett vägskäl, mer avgörande och ödesdigert än någonsin  där kolonialiteten som ideologi, diskurs och institutionell praktik bekräftar sin närvaro i nutiden. Samtidigt pekar detta på nödvändigheten att rikta blicken mot nya horisonter och i samma veva även ta vara på det förflutnas och nutidens positiva erfarenheter.

The chapter discusses shifting trends in global migration and the precarization oflabour on the background of processes of commodification and recommodification, against a theory of a neoliberal ‘regulatory state’. It explores aspects of the other side of thi sproblem in terms of perspectives for, to paraphrase Polanyi (2001 [1944]), a countermovementof, for, or with the migrant precariat. Reviewing processes leading up to the confirmation of the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration (GCM 2018 ) and the subsequent  UN International Migration Review Forum, the authors ask what space there is for migrant rights movements in the global governance of migration and discuss the handling of the discursive emblemof ‘human rights’ in the context.

"This Handbook presents a comprehensive overview of the interaction between migration and development from a range of critical and counter-hegemonic perspectives. Exploring the strengths and weaknesses of existing practices connected with the migration and development nexus, contributing authors provide a clear understanding of their complex dynamics. Divided into three thematic sections, the Handbook opens with a range of cutting-edge theoretical insights and methodologies that seek to establish the current state of the art. Following this, chapter authors use exploitation and dispossession as overarching concepts to frame key aspects of migration and development from a labour and class perspective. The Handbook then looks ahead, considering the opportunities and dilemmas illustrated by the various initiatives aimed at framing a multi-level governance regime for migration and development across the globe. The Handbook on Migration and Development is an invaluable resource for students, academics and researchers in migration, development studies, sociology and social policy. Bringing together a wide range of underrepresented voices, this Handbook is also of benefit to policymakers working in international migration"--Provided by publisher.

The relationship between migration and development has become a major academic and polit-ical issue encompassing national, regional, and global contexts. Hitherto, the agenda for dis-cussion has been largely dictated by the governments of the major migrant-receiving northerncountries (primarily the US and the European Union) and implemented by key internationalorganisations such as the World Bank and the International Organization for Migration, aswell as some regional organisations such as the Inter-American Development Bank, theInternational Centre for Migration Policy Development, and the Organization for Security andCooperation in Europe. This Handbook proposes giving voice to more critical and heterodoxperspectives as well as voices from the South, in a bid to articulate a counter-hegemonic vision(see, in the same vein, Munck et al., 2020).

Contending Global Apartheid: Transversal Solidarities and Politics of Possibility spells out a plea for utopia in a crisis-ridden 21st century of unequal development, exclusionary citizenship, and forced migrations. The volume offers a collection of critical essays on human rights movements, sanctuary spaces, and the emplacement of antiracist conviviality in cities across North and South America, Europe, and Africa. Each intervention proceeds from the idea that cities may accommodate both a humanistic sensibility and a radical potential for social transformation. The figure of the 'migrant' is pivotal. It expounds the prospect of transversal solidarity to capture a plurality of commonalities and to abjure dichotomies between in-group and out-group, the national and the international, or society and institutions.