This paper reviews scholarship regarding migrants’ legal consciousness. After discussing the personal, geographic and methodological scope of the reviewed studies, the conceptualisation of legal consciousness is examined in light of evolutions in general legal consciousness studies. Thereafter, factors emerging as shaping migrants’ legal consciousness are analytically clustered at four levels: individual characteristics, relational factors, cultural dynamics, and public policies and discourse. Future research on legal consciousness could shift its gaze towards understudied migrant groups as well as places. We suggest being more explicit regarding the conceptualisation of dimensions of what is ‘legal’ and of ‘consciousness’, and adopting a pluralist approach to law. The analytical grouping of the factors impacting migrants’ legal consciousness may serve as a useful reference point for future research and facilitate a more comprehensive appraisal of the various dynamics shaping migrants’ legal consciousness.

本文回顾了有关移民法律意识的学术研究。在讨论了所审查研究的个人、地理和方法论范围之后，法律意识的概念化根据一般法律意识研究的演变进行了审查。此后，塑造移民法律意识的因素在分析上集中在四个层面：个人特征、关系因素、文化动态以及公共政策和话语。未来对法律意识的研究可能会将目光转向未被充分研究的移民群体和地方。我们建议对“法律”和“意识”维度的概念化更加明确，并采用多元主义的法律方法。