Poet Lemn Sissay confronted the racism embedded in global visa systems at LAGO's 2024 Beauty of Movement event, then captured the moment in a quatrain that captures the heart of our flagship project on visa inequality: All Other Passports.

Published by the London School of Economics Africa Centre, LAGO's analysis finds that unequal visa regimes cost applicants from low and middle-income countries over €100 million in rejected fees every year.

Europe is placing insurmountable barriers in front of Africans trying to get visas to visit. Marta Foresti and Otho Mantegazza discuss how this policy is denying people opportunities and doing Europe more harm than good - published by LSE.

Published by Brookings, Marta Foresti argues that COVID-19 exposed the urgent need for migration reform and that turning gratitude for essential migrant workers into policy change requires an entirely different conversation.

Published by the London School of Economics, this piece introduces the Africa-Europe Mayors' Dialogue and how cross-continental city leadership is making urban spaces more welcoming and connected.

Newly appointed as Chair of the Global Creative Economy Council, Marta Foresti makes the case for creative industries as essential drivers of global economic policy, not a "nice to have" but a necessity.

A collective reflection from the LAGO team with each of us writing from these places and spaces, offering a different way of seeing. Together, we capture where LAGO’s work stands today and where it is heading.

"Global" too often describes the vantage point of a few. A reflection on why the conversation about the future of creativity remains geographically narrow and why that needs to change.

Arts, design, music and poetry can do what policy arguments often can't: shift how we think about the movement of people. This essay makes the case for an imaginative vocabulary to tell a different migration story.