Une réalité pratique de l'acception de la solidarité par l'État français

Abstract

Solidarity must be distinguished from altruism, which leads to helping one¿s neighbor through a simple moral commitment, without the need for reciprocity, as well as from cooperation, in which everyone works in a spirit of general interest for the whole. Unfortunately, today, state solidarity, at least in France, is very artificial in practice. However, the French state has not always been so closed. It lifts the barrier more easily when it needs to. The State does not necessarily treat requests in the same way, there is a selective solidarity. We also see how the State offloads this solidarity onto citizens or other non-state structures. This poses great difficulties for the latter, which makes this ¿offloading¿ very debatable and sort of hypocritical, also in this case, because in the end it is not the State that is ¿really¿ in solidarity. But therein lies the real solidarity. Consequently, this unloading of the declared solidarity of the State on citizens and associations is obviously a failure, or at least poses a major difficulty in putting declared solidarity into practice. This poses a real philosophical problem for NGO actors, remembering that migration is often a journey in search of dignity.

Keywords

• citizens
• solidarity
• inmigracion