ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the institutional mechanisms that structure social attachments to society and argues that the structure of those social relations, the boundaries of belonging, will close off territory borders to preserve the welfare state for insiders. It examines the social fault lines that separate members from nonmembers, with material effects on the territorial border. The Swedish Border Police has since conducted more than 3.2 million ID checks, more than any other EU member and eight times the number of internal migration controls conducted in Germany and Denmark. The nation-state as a form of political authority still maintains a singular power to define and enforce membership, to take or deny responsibility for people, to allow entry or to impose removal. As part of growing mobility controls in Sweden and the European Union, Swedish authorities launched REVA, a joint operation run by the Swedish Police, the Migration Agency, and the Prison and Probation Service.
