Peer2Politics

This was the year in which mass migrations of millions of war refugees [1] were organized by social media (specifically through 'secret' Facebook groups) and in which scores of citizens organized themselves through peer to peer networks to assist them. This is also the year of publication of a major book on transmigration, i.e. the movements of people who come to the West not to stay, but in rotational organization, often organized as ethnic and religious Phyles, as documented in the book by Alain Tarrius, entitled, "Etrangers de passage. Poor to poor, peer to peer" [2] (Editions de l’Aube, 2015). The P2P in the subtitle is justified by the absolutely essential role that the internet plays in all stages of these circuits, for example, from taking orders for Chinese electronics, to warning at which market at which time they will be delivered. One example many Europeans may be familiar with are the indigenous people from Otavallo, Ecuador, with their pan-flute music and sale of Alpacca wool in many European cities with over 40,000 people, and responsible for one third of the local GDP; and also the sufi brotherhoods from Senegal, selling not so authentic luxury goods on the continent's beaches. Tarius has uncovered many such circuits, linking the poor of the Global South, to the immigrant neighborhoods of western countries.

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