ABSTRACT
This chapter brings an overview on social border-resilience of Russian second home owners in Finland in the context of fluctuating cross-border mobilities and mobility regulations. The discussion focuses on mobility sanctions implemented after the wake of the Ukrainian conflict in 2014, modifications to Schengen visa regulations, changes to banking policies in Finland and Russia, and security discourses and legislative change in relation to Russian property purchases in Finland. To understand the resilient solutions, the chapter employs interviews with Russian second home owners in Finland’s border regions. The concept of mobility turbulence frames the changing mobility conditions. The chapter also introduces a resilience continuum as an analytical tool for examining the capacity to adapt to border and cross-border mobility changes. The results show that not all transformations can be negotiated through resilience. Various changes evoke different degrees of adaptive capacity that create a continuum of social border-resilience practices.
