Faculty Bookwatch: Charles Piot: "The Fixer: Visa Lottery Chronicles"

'Duke Franklin Humanities Institute's Faculty Bookwatch featured Duke Professor of Cultural Anthropology and African & African American Studies Charles Piot and his recently published, The Fixer: Visa Lottery Chronicles. In this book, Professor Piot follows Kodjo Nicolas Batema, a visa-broker known as a "fixer" in the West African nation of Togo, as he helps his clients apply for the U.S. Diversity Visa Lottery program. Through detailed and compelling stories, "The Fixer" illustrates the desire and savviness of migrants as they work to find what they hope will be a better life.'