My work, across peer-reviewed articles, book chapters, policy briefs, and commentary. See the Atlas for themes.
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2026
58 Case W. Res. J. Int'l L. 77 (2026), with UnyimeAbasi Odong
Interrogates sharenting, the routine posting of children's images and personal narratives on social media by parents, as a matter of international legal concern, arguing it constitutes a novel form of child labour that implicates children's rights to privacy, autonomy, and dignity under international human rights law.
Article
2025
LeBoeuf et al. (eds), Between Protection and Harm (IMISCOE / Springer, 2025) 189, with Nakache, Purkey & Yousuf
Examines how Canadian refugee decision-makers, particularly the Immigration and Refugee Board, accommodate vulnerable claimants in the hearing process, tracing the evolution of Chairperson's Guidelines and their limits.
Book Chapter
Chetail, Chotinkul & Raimondo (eds), Elgar Concise Encyclopaedia of Migration & Asylum Law (Edward Elgar, 2025) 307, with Delphine Nakache
A reference entry examining how international instruments, the Global Compact for Migration, the Global Compact on Refugees, the New York Declaration, use and operationalise the concept of "vulnerability" in the governance of mobility.
Encyclopaedia
119 AJIL Unbound 236 (2025)
Argues that Africa's engagement with democracy and the law that promotes it has been not merely reactive but normatively generative, drawing from local traditions, continental solidarities, and hybrid legal innovations.
Article
2024
118:1 Proc. ASIL Ann. Mtg. 73 (2024), with Egboka, Fomunyoh, Okafor & Niyo
A panel at the American Society of International Law's 2024 Annual Meeting redirecting discussion away from what international law demands of African states toward the pivotal role African institutions play in forging democratic frameworks.
Proceedings
5 TWAIL Review 120 (2024)
Examines Objective 5 of the Global Compact for Migration, flexibility in regular pathways for labour mobility, and argues that the GCM's presentation as a consensus, value-neutral document in fact normalises sovereignty, border security, and economic demands in ways that entrench a racialised hierarchy of international norms.
Article
Book review of Olakpe, South-South Migrations and the Law from Below, Afronomics Blog (2024)
A review of Olakpe's scholarly contribution to South-South migration discourse, a book that applies TWAIL and "law from below" through case studies in Nigeria and China to challenge dominant South-North migration paradigms.
Book Review
2023
VULNER Policy Brief, May 2023, with Nakache, Crépeau, Purkey, Soennecken, Hajjar, Tanotra & Yusuf
Distils the VULNER research findings into actionable policy recommendations for Canadian decision-makers and practitioners.
Policy Brief
Newsletter of the Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Women in Africa, African Commission on Human & Peoples' Rights (Oct 2023)
A contribution to the Newsletter of the Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Women in Africa, examining how the Maputo Protocol empowers women through progressive labour-mobility rights within the African human-rights system.
Newsletter
2022
UN Office of Legal Affairs, Spring 2022
A contribution to the UN's Repertory of Practice of United Nations Organs, the authoritative record of how UN bodies have interpreted and applied the UN Charter, for Article 14, covering the 2016–2020 period.
Article
VULNER Research Report 2 (Univ. of Ottawa / McGill / York, November 2022), with Nakache, Purkey, Anderson, Tanotra, Soennecken, Hajjar, Yousuf & Crépeau
A 66-page empirical research report funded by SSHRC/CRSH and the EU's Horizon 2020 programme, drawing on interviews with migrants, civil servants at IRCC, members of the IRB, and community-based practitioners across Canada.
Report
2021
28 Ind. J. Global Leg. Stud. 81 (2021)
Examines the Nigeria-to-Italy migration corridor through the twin constructs of caregiving and sexualisation, showing how gender is simultaneously a driver, a pathway, and a destination of transnational labour mobility.
Article
VULNER Policy Brief, September 2021, with Nakache, Soennecken, Anderson, Crépeau, Frenyo, Mahmood, Purkey & Tanotra
Initial policy findings from the VULNER Canada team, framing the research agenda and early insights on how vulnerability is understood and applied in the Canadian context.
Policy Brief
2020
Lawyer's Daily, 26 June 2020
A practitioner-oriented analysis of Estonia's Digital Nomad Visa regime, published shortly after Estonia's Parliament approved amendments to its Alien Act in June 2020, and what it might offer Canadian immigration policy in the wake of COVID-19.
Opinion
J. Int'l Crim. L. 1 (2020)
Interrogates the binary status of women coerced into being Person-Borne Improvised Explosive Devices (PBIEDs) by Boko Haram, as victims of gender persecution (a crime against humanity) and as unwilling participants in the insurgency.
Article
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