ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts covered in the preceding chapters of this book. The book investigates the social conditions and social structures that would lead to such a decision, seeking to explain its social significance rather than accept this technical or administrative rationale. It argues that the border closing was a necessary response to system overload as public authorities could not keep up with pace, scale, and depth of human hardship brought about by forced displacement, endless war, and mass mobility. In Sweden, the border closing was driven in part by the need to restore domestic security for those on the inside. The European Union's (EU) weak grasp on the refugee crisis exposed the vacuum of supranational governance as members balked at quotas, nearly gave up on the external border, and in Britain even walked away from the union itself.
