In the spotlight. Humankind’s suffering is not something one can get used to

I decided to write a book in the summer of 2009 when the Italian government started intercepting and turning back migrants at sea. I thought it would have helped me analyse what has been going on these years and what is not happening nowadays. Despite the apparent calm that was looming over the waters of the Mediterranean in the absence of disembarkments, apprehension still arose from the many stories of the men and women who had reached, one after the other and throughout the years, the Favarolo dock of Lampedusa and the southern coasts of Italy.