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The Luxembourg anthropologist Gilles Reckinger spent more than 10 years, between 2009 and 2022, studying the living conditions of “failed” African migrants on the Italian coastline, particularly on the island of Lampedusa. We write “failed” because, contrary to one of many common misconceptions, many of the individuals described in this short work are men who, in the vast majority of cases, never deliberately set out to get to Europe or, more specifically, Italy. It...