« We wanted to collect unused and abandoned panels and metal sheet plates to fix our house in the campsite. While Sacko and me were on the roof of a structure collecting panels, i heard a gunshot that alerted us and forced us to go down immediately. Having identified the source of the gunshot, i noticed far away a man, on higher ground, who was looking at us, his shotgun pointed at us. »

In this essay mixing political thoughts, and stories of his life, Aboubakar Soumahoro analyses the era since his experience as an immigrant farm worker in the south of Italia. While work is more and more precarious, the migrant workers seem to be the most vulnerables. The author invites us to see the struggle of immigrants with their specificities, but above all, to consider it like a more global struggle against all forms of oppression, at the crossroads of class issues, of race and gender. Against a racially oriented vision of the world, which demeans the dignity of those who are only seen as « migrants », he cites Albert Camus to promote a « right to happiness » with an universal range.