{"id":4748,"date":"2026-01-06T07:44:47","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T06:44:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nettop.guru\/wordpress\/?p=4748"},"modified":"2026-01-06T07:57:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T06:57:08","slug":"racial-capitalism-temporal-dispossession-and-the-politics-of-asylum-in-swede","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nettop.guru\/wordpress\/racial-capitalism-temporal-dispossession-and-the-politics-of-asylum-in-swede\/","title":{"rendered":"Racial Capitalism, Temporal Dispossession, and the Politics of Asylum in Sweden"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

What happens when we think of the Nordic welfare state not only as a protector of rights and social welfare, but also as a site of dispossession? In this episode of Challenging Nordic Innocence, we talk with Sarah Philipson Isaac about her PhD dissertation Temporal dispossession: the politics of asylum and the remaking of racial capitalism in and beyond the borders of the Swedish welfare state<\/em>\u00a0from 2024. Sarah unpacks how Sweden\u2019s migration bureaucracy weaponizes time\u2014accelerating, freezing, and fragmenting asylum seekers\u2019 lives\u2014and in doing so exposes the racialized logics underpinning\u00a0 the welfare state. From the shift to temporary residence permits to the production of hyper-exploitable labor, this conversation explores the temporal violence of the asylum system in Sweden and asks what futures are foreclosed when rights become conditional?<\/p>\n

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Sarah Philipson Isaac holds a PhD in Sociology from the University of Gothenburg. She is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the Stockholm School of Economics, working on a project that investigates labour\u00a0exploitation in the Swedish construction industry, with a particular focus on how an increasingly restrictive migration regime shapes work conditions.<\/p>\n

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Links to some of Sarah\u2019s publications:<\/em><\/p>\n

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Philipson Isaac, S. (2025). The Expanding Carceral Geography of Sweden and Counter-politics of Care. South Atlantic Quarterly<\/em>, 124<\/em>(1), 214\u2013221. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1215\/00382876-11557881<\/a><\/u><\/p>\n

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Philipson Isaac, S. (2025). Unpacking State Production of Temporal Dispossession: The Intersections of Labour, Asylum\u00a0and Informalization in Sweden. Critical Sociology<\/em>, 51<\/em>(1), 87\u2013103. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1177\/08969205241242098<\/a><\/u><\/p>\n

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Philipson Isaac, S. (2022). Temporal dispossession through migration bureaucracy: On waiting within the asylum process in Sweden. European Journal of Social Work<\/em>, 25<\/em>(6), 945\u2013956. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/13691457.2022.2077317<\/a><\/u><\/p>\n

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Philipson Isaac, S. (2024). Temporal dispossession: The politics of asylum and the remaking of racial capitalism in and beyond the borders of the Swedish welfare state<\/em>. University of Gothenburg. https:\/\/gupea.ub.gu.se\/handle\/2077\/80383<\/a><\/u><\/p>\n

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Links to literature mentioned in the interview<\/em>:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Anderson, B. (2019). New directions in migration studies: Towards methodological de-nationalism. Comparative Migration Studies, 7<\/em>(1). https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1186\/<\/a><\/u>\u00a0s40878-019-0140-8<\/p>\n

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Ansems\u00a0de Vries, L., & Welander, M. (2016). Refugees, displacement, and the European \u2018politics of exhaustion\u2019. openDemocracy<\/em>. https:\/\/www.opendemocracy.net\/mediterranean-journeys-in-hope\/leonie-ansems-de-vries-marta-welander\/refugees-displacement-and-europ<\/a><\/u><\/p>\n

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Cabot, H., & Ramsay, G. (2021). Deexceptionalizing\u00a0Displacement: An Introduction. Humanity, 12<\/em>(3), 14.<\/p>\n

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Castles, S. (2004). Why migration policies fail. Ethnic and Racial Studies, 27<\/em>(2), 205227. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/0141987042000177306<\/a><\/u><\/p>\n

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Danewid, I. (2023). Resisting Racial Capitalism: An Antipolitical Theory of Refusal. <\/em>Cambridge University Press. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1017\/9781009127707<\/a><\/u><\/p>\n

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Fanon, F. (1966). The wretched of the earth<\/em>. Grove Press.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Fanon, F. (1967). Black skin, white masks<\/em>. Grove Press.<\/p>\n

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Gilmore, R. W. (2022). Abolition geography: essays towards liberation<\/em>. Verso.<\/p>\n

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Khosravi, S. (2019). What do we see if we look at the border from the other side? Social Anthropology, 27<\/em>(3), 409\u2013424. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1111\/1469-8676.12685<\/a><\/u><\/p>\n

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Lindberg, A. (2020). Minimum rights policies targeting people seeking protection in Denmark and Sweden. In D. Abdelhady, N. Gren, & M. Joormann\u00a0(Eds.), Refugees and the violence of welfare bureaucracies in Northern Europe<\/em>. Manchester University Press. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.7765\/9781526146847.00012<\/a><\/u><\/p>\n

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Paris, W. M. (2025). Race, Time, and Utopia: Critical Theory and the Process of Emancipation<\/em>\u00a0(1st ed). Oxford University\u00a0Press, Incorporated.<\/p>\n

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Ramsay, G. (2020). Time and the other in crisis: How anthropology makes its displaced object. Anthropological Theory, 20<\/em>(4), 385\u2013413. https:\/\/doi<\/a>. org\/10.1177\/1463499619840464<\/p>\n

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Sager, M., & \u00d6berg, K. (2017). Articulations of deportability: Changing migration policies in Sweden 2015\/2016. Refugee Review, 3<\/em>(1), 2\u201314.<\/p>\n

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