Brochure: Transborder Summer Camp III

For the third time (following the 2019 and 2022 editions), the Transborder Summer Camp 2025 brought together 680 activists at the ZAD in Notre-Dame-des-Landes for a gathering focusing on practices of local and transnational solidarity along migration routes, struggles against border violence and police brutality, and campaigns for freedom of movement.

The brochure produced by members of the TSC organising committee brings together some of the reflections shared during this third international and cross-border summer camp.

• Download the brochure in English (available also in French).

The texts are the result of a call for contributions issued to all participants and the organising groups of the various workshops. Through summaries, reports, personal reflections and critical commentary, poems and photographs, the brochure seeks to capture something of the exceptional spirit of this gathering.

Although it inevitably provides only an incomplete account of the diversity of exchanges that fuelled the gathering, the aim of the brochure is to document some of the key discussions and commitments that emerged from the summer camp. It aims to support transnational networking processes and help to re-inspire us in our struggles. It constitutes a valuable archive of struggles against borders on a transnational scale.

The brochure addresses a wide range of rich and diverse topics, including:

• The intersecting struggles of the families of those who have died or gone missing along migration routes and the families of victims of racist police violence, highlighting the need to place their voices at the heart of the struggles for freedom of movement
• Practical initiatives and solidarity networks along migration routes (helplines, information guides, solidarity cities), and the various forms of practical organisation against deportations
• A critique of the visa system and its devastating consequences in Africa
• Analyses of the criminalisation of migrants and activists
• Intersectional perspectives on migration struggles, drawing on the experiences of women and LGBTQ+ people in migration
• Reflections on power dynamics within solidarity movements and ways to challenge these dynamics at transnational events such as the TSC
• Texts on the struggles for legalisation and the links between migration and labour struggles, to build bridges between the anti-border movement and the social movement
• Strategic reflections on the practical and logistical organisation of transnational meetings and the challenges of funding our struggles.

Finally, the brochure lists numerous grassroots organisations and transnational networks campaigning for freedom of movement in Europe, Africa and Asia, forming a register of organisations committed to solidarity with people in migration across the continents.

You can find and download the full brochure on the Transborder Camp website.

All the pictures are from the brochure.