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The fixer : visa lottery chronicles /

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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Piot, Charles (Author), Batema, Kodjo Nicolas (Visa broker) (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Durham, North Carolina : Duke University Press, 2019.
Series:Theory in forms.
Subjects:
Batema, Kodjo Nicolas > (Visa broker)
African diaspora.
Togo > Emigration and immigration.
Visas > Togo.
Togolese > Migrations > History > 21st century.
Togolese > United States.
Visas > Government policy > United States.
Emigration and immigration law > United States.
Table of Contents:
  • Border practice
  • The interview
  • Kinship by other means
  • Trading futures
  • Embassy indiscretions
  • Protest
  • Prison
  • America, here we come
  • Lomé 2018.