Charles Piot: Podcast Interviews

Charles Piot, PhD

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Anthropologist, Social Scientist, Author

1 Interview

Charles Piot's Interviews

Alize Arican & Charles Piot • 10 Aug 2020 • EN

Charles Piot, "The Fixer: Visa Lottery Chronicles" (Duke UP, 2019)

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