Social Justice Education
Border enforcement and free-trade policies directly affect the lives of working people and immigrants. Researchers, advocates, and activists for human rights can find history and resources on this site.
Women and Globalization
Exploitation in global factories has led women workers to fight for fair wages and empower themselves through fair trade networks.
Reimagining the Border
With social critique and humor artists and activists reimagine human relationships along the U.S.-Mexico border.
Immigration and Detention
Women on the Border offers resources for the struggle to uphold the human rights of migrants and the undocumented.
Our History
Women on the Border was founded in 2001 to support the empowerment of women working in the NAFTA factories (maquiladoras) at the U.S.-Mexico border.
In recent years, as U.S. policy has become more hostile than ever to migrants, workers, and people of color, Women on the Border has sought to promote scholarship and activism calling for freedom, justice and human dignity.
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Do we need to care about Project 2025?
In recent years, and especially during 2018-2020, this organization helped raise awareness and funds to aid immigrants seeking shelter or legal aid. Some of us on the Board volunteered to help migrants fill out asylum applications. They were temporary detainees at...
Prison industries want him back…
During the Trump era (2017-2020), corporations that profit from detention, especially those at the U.S.-Mexico border did very well. Mr. Trump is running again for a second presidency. His allies have put together an agenda known as Project 25 to support his vision,...
RIOPLEX? Borderland Metropolis? What about the maquiladoras?
The Rio Grande Valley, or el Valle del Rio Bravo, is a collection of small town border communities in Texas. The region is well known to Texans as a citrus center for agriculture, home for the delicious red grapefruit. Lacking a major city center it is also known as...
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