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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Sifting Through the Chaos
The impact of Trump’s rapid-fire signing of executive orders is overwhelming. The US-Mexico border emerges as a site of civilization-ending crisis one day, then disappears altogether on the next, as our attention boomerangs from Ukraine to the Post Office to the...
Economic boycotting for change?
Economic boycotting Boycotting as a tool to effect social change has a long history in the U.S.A. This organization supports the tool of the economic boycott. We were founded in 2000 with a mission of raising awareness over the impact of NAFTA on working women in the...
Help NGOs targeted for providing aid to immigrants and refugees
On the day of his inauguration President Trump signed several executive orders including one that targeted non-governmental organizations providing any kind of aid to undocumented individuals. Federal courts have ordered the Trump administration to resume funding for...
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