ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts covered in the preceding chapters of this book. The book examines bordering practices in the Nordic countries and their impact on family life among racialized families and parents. It summarizes Vaha-Savo’s theoretical analysis of spheres of belonging, which structured and framed the different analysis that followed. Vaha-Savo found four aspects involved in the discursive legitimation of the Nordic welfare states: official laws and policies, experts who define categories and statistics depicting the population, social and traditional media battling, and individuals drawing borders in everyday lives. The book focuses on everyday transnational family life. It discusses small agency as enduring, which also gives room for self-making through ethical agency, which is a shared experience among Afghan refugees. This limited space for agency was located in the margins of society, and outside of the administrative borders which separate the insiders and outsiders of the society.
