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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Follow the Money – Profiting from the inhumanity of Trump’s Mass Deportation Programs.
Stephen Miller, the key figure behind the current mass deportation policies is the descendant of immigrants. So is his boss, the president. But their powerful actions to deliver the largest mass deportation program in history against immigrants reflects a...
ICE TERRORISM PERSISTS
There aren't any other words to describe the humanitarian consequences of Mr. Trump's anti-immigrant campaign launched after he took over the Oval office in January 2025. It is terrorism legitimated by a country in the grips of a fascistic mindset: At all costs...
Sifting Through the Chaos, Revised 2/2026
The impact of escalating and militarized ICE raids, threats to freedom of speech and freedom of assembly, and the loss of respect for the US on a global stage, is overwhelming. What is happening? Where should we look for trustworthy news and in-depth analysis in these...
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Bibliography - Women on the Border
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‘I’d rather die here than in Africa’: Migrants describe violent deportation flight
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More than 25,000 people have been expelled to "third countries" under Trump, including to dangerous and conflict-ridden nations such as the Central Africa Republic.