The past decade has witnessed a shift from “open borders” policies and cross-border cooperation towards heightened border securitization and the building of border walls. In the EU context, since the migration influx of 2015–2016, many Member States have retained the re-instituted Schengen border controls intended to be temporary. Such heightened border securitization has produced high levels of anxiety among various populations and increased societal polarization. This paper focuses on the processes underpinning asylum seeker reception at the re-bordered Finnish-Swedish border and in the Finnish border town of Tornio. The asylum process is studied from the perspective of local authorities and NGO actors active in the everyday reception, care and control practices in the border securitization environment enacted in Tornio in 2015. The analysis highlights how the ‘success’ of everyday reception work at the Tornio border crossing was bound to the historical openness of the border and pre-existing relations of trust and cooperation between different actors at various scales. The paper thus provides a new understanding of the significance of borders and border crossings from the perspective of resilience and highlights some of the paradoxes of border securitization. It notes that although border closures are commonly envisioned as a direct response to forced migration, the everyday practices and capacities of the asylum reception at the Finnish-Swedish border are themselves highly dependent on pre-existing border crossings and cross-border cooperation.

在过去的十年中，目睹了从“开放边界”政策和跨界合作向加强边界证券化和建立边界墙的转变。在欧盟范围内，自2015-2016年涌入移民以来，许多会员国保留了旨在暂时恢复的重新设立的申根边境管制措施。边界证券化的这种加剧在各种人群中产生了高度的焦虑，并加剧了社会两极化。本文着重介绍在重新划定的芬兰-瑞典边境和芬兰边境小镇托尔尼奥（Tornio）寻求庇护者的过程。从地方当局和非政府组织行动者的角度研究了庇护程序，该行动者于2015年在托尔尼奥实施的边境证券化环境中的日常接待，照料和控制做法。分析强调了托尔尼奥过境点日常接待工作的“成功”如何与边界的历史开放以及不同规模的不同行为者之间已有的信任与合作关系联系在一起。因此，本文从复原力的角度提供了对边界和过境的重要性的新理解，并强调了边界证券化的一些悖论。它指出，尽管通常设想关闭边境是对强迫迁徙的直接反应，但芬兰-瑞典边境的庇护所的日常做法和能力本身高度依赖于已有的过境点和跨境合作。