ABSTRACT
This chapter provides an overview and analysis of the penal harms associated with mobility controls in the Swedish context. It examines how these penal harms are contested through civil disobedience, migrants rights movements, and the volunteerism of civil society in Sweden. Border criminologies and the pains of imprisonment literature have been at the forefront of documenting and conceptualizing the harms that are intrinsic to punishment and how they infiltrate migration control. The chapter presents a significant set of protests against the pain of others, particularly the deprivation of security. The state's reliance on penal power at the border to sort, classify, stratify, and decide membership in the polity is wracked with violence. Mass demonstrations and everyday acts of resistance call attention to the pain and suffering of those exposed to the state's monopoly of violence. Civil society exposes the pain imposed on people for daring to share the earth.
