In her 2005 essay 'After Legal Consciousness', reviewing the field of legal consciousness
research, Silbey proposed that 'it might be time to move on'from its study (Silbey, 2005: 323) …

For mixed-citizenship couples, getting married is the easy part. The US Supreme Court has
confirmed the universal civil right to marry, guaranteeing every couple's ability to wed. But …

This article introduces the notion of appropriation in debates on how to account for migrants'
capacity to defy restrictive border controls and migration policies. What the notion of …

The growing importance of marriage as a migration strategy has been accompanied by a
problematisation and securitization of marriages between binational couples in media and …

In the introduction of this special issue on “Law in the everyday lives of transnational
families”, we argue that in the socio-legal literature on transnationalism and transnational …

This paper reviews scholarship regarding migrants' legal consciousness. After discussing
the personal, geographic and methodological scope of the reviewed studies, the …

ABSTRACT Since European Union states began externalising their migration control
regime, by delegating to third states, their own remote institutions and non-state actors …

In France, the COVID-19 pandemic was experienced as a cascading crisis, with its effects
rippling out beyond its initial health domain. Due to the lockdown and ban on travel, the …

According to alcohol myopia theory, acute alcohol consumption leads people to
disproportionally focus on the salient rather than the peripheral aspects of a situation. We …

Life events such as marriage, divorce or the birth of children are not just intimate family
matters but also legal matters. For transnational families, such life events are influenced by …