Consciences du droit, connaissances et savoir-faire juridiques chez les soutiens aux personnes exilées

This article examines the ways in which people supporting exiled persons mobilise and understand the law in Calais and Briançon, two cities that have become, at different times and in different ways, major centres of migration. The first part looks at the ways in which these people understand the law and become, to different degrees and in different ways, intermediaries of the law. The second part uses the concept of “legal consciousness” developed across the Atlantic in the early 1990s to question the way in which the experience of involvement in these border territories has led to a change in their relationship with the law, both as a written norm and in how it is applied by institutions.