Brid Brennan Project Coordinator Corporate Power

Humans beings have always moved, yet migration is often framed as a problem. The new volume Rethinking Migration edited by Bridget Anderson challenges this narrative, exploring mobility across time and borders. She emphasizes that re-framing the migrant-migration question is a crucial challenge today for both activists and academics: "The ideologically charged migration lexicon is not only a terminological and epistemological challenge, but a conceptional, ethical and theoretical one". Chapter 12, Communities of Resistance, features an insightful interview with TNI's Bríd Brennan, on migrant-led organising, transnational campaigning, and resistance. Brennan highlights that the challenge is also a political challenge and shows how migrant and refugee people are protagonists in resisting and forging vital connections across border regimes, linking movements and struggles for justice worldwide. Her reflections indicate how the power of transnational solidarity challenges the rise of corporations and corporate captured state power and that new alliances of solidarity, together with social movements and trade unions are needed for fundamental political and economic change.Read the full interview below.