Research Atlas, Christiana Essie Sagay
A Map of My Work

Research
Atlas.

This is a living map of the ideas, corridors, and frameworks that animate my scholarship. Think of it as a companion to my full publications list and a space to explore my work by theme, time, place, or theoretical lens.

A note from me

My scholarship follows people and the norms that both enable and constrain how they move, work, and belong. The law I'm interested in is the law as it is lived: in refugee hearings, along migration corridors, inside platform economies, across African democratic imaginaries. This atlas gathers that work in one place.

By theme

My publications, clustered by the threads that run across my work. Tap a theme to filter; tap any card to read the abstract.

In sequence

From my early piece on digital-nomad visas in 2020 to my forthcoming work on platform capitalism, my work arranged chronologically.

By place

The jurisdictions, corridors, and communities my work engages. My research follows people and norms across borders.

Tap a marker to read about the region and my publications set there.

Global South Canada Nigeria Pan-Africa Italy / Europe International / Transnational Migration corridor Research focus

By lens

Six theoretical frameworks that shape how I approach my material. Each is developed across more than one of my publications.

On labour mobility

From my TWAIL analysis of the Global Compact for Migration, on what the "consensus document" quietly assumes.

The normalisation of sovereignty, border security, and economic demands as embedded in the GCM furthers a racialised hierarchy of international norms.
Transnational Labour Mobility & Issue-Linkages, TWAIL Review (2024)
On Africa and the law of democracy

Here I argue that Africa is a site of normative production, not deficiency, drawing the distinction between a law of democracy and a law on democracy.

Africa's engagement with democracy has not been merely reactive or derivative, but normatively generative, drawing from local traditions, continental solidarities, and hybrid legal innovations.
Musings on "Internationality", AJIL Unbound (2025)
On migrant vulnerability

The reframing of the Canadian protection regime, drawing on empirical VULNER research conducted with migrants, civil servants, and practitioners.

The system itself is responsible for creating, or exacerbating, many of these vulnerabilities.
VULNER Policy Brief, Canada (2023)
On gendered migration

The opening of my Indiana Journal piece on the Nigeria–Italy corridor, where gender is at once a driver, a pathway, and a destination of labour mobility.

Temporary and permanent movements are globalising, accelerating, diversifying, and feminising.
Twists & Swirls, Indiana J. Global Legal Studies (2021)
On platform capitalism & children

From my forthcoming work with UnyimeAbasi Odong, where we reframe sharenting as a site of digital labour under international human rights law.

Childhood increasingly unfolds within algorithmic and economic contexts that transcend domestic boundaries and challenge conventional legal norms.
Sharenting & Child Rights, 58 Case W. Res. J. Int'l L. 77 (2026)

This atlas is my living document. Last updated April 2026.  ·  For full texts, citations & links, see my Research & Writing.