The unpicking of the international order will have each step paved by lawyers and technocrats, who unthinkingly consider the security of borders to be of preeminent importance; and an end in itself.

This is either dangerous incompetence or else it’s dishonesty.

Its not only a very European imposition to construe family in such a narrow way; but it is also ignorant of how when social, political and other networks/ structures break down, and where deaths more common (eg during war or occupation etc) how more complex notions of family grow & are essential.