Fixer

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.

"Extremely well written, The Fixer is a must-read for those striving for a more equitable world: their advocacy efforts around global mobility and migration cannot be understood divorced from global inequalities. The Fixer would be a great read for general readers, migration experts, policymakers, folks involved in advocacy for immigrants and displaced people, and students of immigration and transnational studies, as well as in courses on the challenges and ethics of ethnographic field research. Just a gentle warning - once you start the book, it is hard to put down." - Faranak Miraftab (International Migration Review) “Scholars of Africa will appreciate how Piot combines his deep regional knowledge of Togo and his ethnographic expertise to highlight the larger global forces that shape the lives of migrant-refugees.”- Marius Kothor (African Studies Review) "The Fixer demonstrates how skillful ethnography can help us better grasp the current political, economic, and cultural dynamics of migration as impacted by understandings of kinship, legitimacy, and local improvisation." - Dubie Toa-Kwapong (Transforming Anthropology) "While the key theoretical interventions of the book are spelt out in the introduction, the rest of the book is written in clear prose accessible to academic and non-academic audiences. The book makes a fine contribution to migration studies, economic and legal anthropology, African studies, and US studies; it would be a great case study for graduate and undergraduate courses in these fields." - Smoki Musaraj (Anthropological Notebooks)

• Acknowledgments  ixIntroduction. Business of Dreams  11. Border Practice  272. The Interview  453. Kinship by Other Means  634. Trading Futures  855. Embassy Indiscretions  1096. Protest  1247. Prison  1348. America, Here We Come  1489. LomÉ 2018  171Notes  179Bibliography  195Index  207