While research on the platform economy is thriving, platform companies operating in the public sphere remain understudied. The present article contributes to narrow this research gap, by analysing the emergence of healthcare platform companies (HPCs, hereafter) in the Swedish public healthcare sector. HPCs provide app-based consultations, matching healthcare professionals with patients. These are relatively new private for-profit actors that are restructuring the geography of the Swedish public primary care. The paper deploys the notion of (dis-)embeddedness to analyse HPCs' expansion strategies, foregrounding two interrelated aspects. First, how HPCs territorially (dis-)embed in/from Regions to maximize reimbursement from public finances, using a parallel system of primary care financing by providing app-based consultations at the national scale. Second, how HPCs simultaneously embed in transnational networks of speculative capital, raising investments to offset losses and fund further expansion. Drawing on critical platform and digital data studies, this article examines how the speculative valorization of data, extracted via app-based service provision and central to valuation processes of platform companies, can account for HPCs' rapid expansion despite sustained losses. HPCs' data extraction practices push the frontier of commodification in the public primary care beyond the provision of services, while their expansion strategies further financialization.

Migrant brokers constitute a substantial node in the industries that underpin contemporary global migration processes, including seasonal labour migrants in agri-food businesses. This article adds a translocal perspective to the role of migrant brokers, while emphasising the multi-sited embeddedness of brokers in sending and receiving countries, and their role in sustaining transnational migration flows. The example of the Swedish wild berry industry shows how two groups of translocal brokers operate in multi-sited space, first, Thai women brokers residing in rural Sweden, and second, local brokers, residing in rural Thailand. This article emphasises how translocal brokers are giving migration industries access to multi-sited embeddedness, both at the site of recruitment in Thai villages and at the site of work in Sweden. The translocal embeddedness is noticed in how moral economies and trust are at play in recruitment processes, and how moral economies are then transferred across space to the site of work. Also, it accentuates how translocal brokers are main subjects, in how their biographical histories are creating translocal relations across space. Lastly, we show how spatial divisions of labour are creating social hierarchies among workers, where the brokers themselves incorporate shifting, 'chameleon' roles in multi-sited space. The analysis brings the moral complexity of brokers to the surface, while showing how the social relations of their 'moral economies' are commodified within profit-seeking migration industries.