Piot Charles Piot

Fixer (eBook, PDF)

Visa Lottery Chronicles

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

In the West African nation of Togo, applying for the U.S. Diversity Visa Lottery is a national obsession, with hundreds of thousands of Togolese entering each year. From the street frenzy of the lottery sign-up period and the scramble to raise money for the embassy interview to the gamesmanship of those adding spouses and dependents to their dossiers, the application process is complicated, expensive, and unpredictable. In The Fixer Charles Piot follows Kodjo Nicolas Batema, a Togolese visa broker-known as a "e;fixer"e;-as he shepherds his clients through the application and interview process. Relaying the experiences of the fixer, his clients, and embassy officials, Piot captures the ever-evolving cat-and-mouse game between the embassy and the hopeful Togolese as well as the disappointments and successes of lottery winners in the United States. These detailed and compelling stories uniquely illustrate the desire and savviness of migrants as they work to find what they hope will be a better life.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Juni 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781478003427
• Artikelnr.: 56865838

Autorenporträt

Charles Piot is Professor of Cultural Anthropology and African and African American Studies at Duke University; editor of Doing Development in West Africa: A Reader by and for Undergraduates, also published by Duke University Press; and author of Nostalgia for the Future: West Africa after the Cold War.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments  ix
Introduction. Business of Dreams  1
1. Border Practice  27
2. The Interview  45
3. Kinship by Other Means  63
4. Trading Futures  85
5. Embassy Indiscretions  109
6. Protest  124
7. Prison  134
8. America, Here We Come  148
9. Lomé 2018  171
Notes  179
Bibliography  195
Index  207