Solidarity through a network system: the case of indian migrants in marseille/France

Abstract

The urban environment is a space that increasingly encourages communication through virtual social networks. With the aim of thinking about the reality of migration and its relations with a solidarity built in a virtual environment, this article proposes to manage an ethnography with Indian migrants who live in the city of Marseille, region of Provence, southern France. How are these individuals who left India towards France organized? Through the ethnographic method, with techniques such as floating observation and participant observation, an anthropological study was carried out on a Facebook group and in Indian restaurants of the city. In this sense, the text seeks to demonstrate the construction of a social network system based on the feeling of solidarity and cooperation. Divided into two sections, the first part of the article tries to describe the relationships established in a Facebook group entitled “Indians in Marseille”. Afterwards, the text presents an ethnography of the relationships that structure the daily life of the Indian restaurants in the city, with the objective of analyzing the poles of power and the construction of solidarity