The effects of enforced temporariness on love relationships, marriage and family formation amongst non-EU migrants in Belgium

Belgium’s increasingly restrictive migration policies highlight its progressive shift towards a regime of immobility that places migrants in situations of enforced temporariness. In this paper, we focus in particular on legal frameworks and procedures that lead people to experience episodes of accelerations, suspensions and disruptions (Robertson, 2015), and on the inter-relations of these legal rhythms and temporalities with migrants’ love, marriage and family formation decisions, practices, plans, and the specific temporalities of family life. We do so by focusing on 3 case studies with nati... Mehr ...