Many people, however, do not know about the work he’s done in his native Malta. In 2010, Sacco produced a piece called The Unwanted, where he interviewed both the migrants and Maltese, who are sweltering on the small island country that has always been at the crossroads of Africa, the Middle East and the Mediterranean, to investigate what is happening. What he found was both disturbing and unsustainable. As migrants became prisoners in their search for freedom – unable to work and sustain themselves – racism became endemic among the local population resulting in more and more restrictive policies.