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Charles Piot with Kodjo Nicolas Batema: The Fixer: Visa Lottery Chronicles

2019, Duke University Press. 232 pp., ISBN: 978-1478003045

Author: David Stoll

Published in: Society | Issue 4/2021

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However dysfunctional American society gets, large numbers of immigrants still want to move to the USA. Advocates for global mobility tend to share optimistic assumptions about how well immigrants do in the country of their dreams, whether this is the USA or somewhere else. One assumption is that immigrants know what is best for them and their families. If they believe that life in the new country will be better, we should rely on their judgement. Another assumption is that their previous lives were so bad that any life at all in the new country will be better. …

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Nicholas Kulish, Frances Robles and Patricia Mazzei, “Behind Illicit Massage Parlors Lie a Vast Crime Network and Modern Indentured Servitude,” New York Times, March 2, 2019 (https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/02/us/massage-parlors-human-trafficking.html)

Ariel Ramchandani, “A Horrifying path to America for Hotel Workers,” Atlantic Monthly, March 2018 (https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2018/03/hotel-workers/554135/)

Title: Charles Piot with Kodjo Nicolas Batema: The Fixer: Visa Lottery Chronicles
2019, Duke University Press. 232 pp., ISBN: 978-1478003045
Author: David Stoll
Publication date: 01-09-2021
Publisher: Springer US
Published in: Society / Issue 4/2021
Print ISSN: 0147-2011
Electronic ISSN: 1936-4725
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12115-021-00621-8

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