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.

Read Our Blog

Trump and ICE Want to Steal Her Future — Let’s Help Save It

by Jess Chapin | May 28, 2025 | Migrants and Human Rights

For those who care about the rights of immigrants and the rule of law the sheer volume of bad news can be overwhelming. It’s hard to find a way to push back against the cruel policies being adopted by ICE under the Trump administration. But scrolling through Facebook...

Bring Home a Scared Kid Wrongly Deported to El Salvador

by Elvia Arriola | May 26, 2025 | Migrants and Human Rights

In the post inauguration frenzy of the Trump Administration on January 26, 2025, ICE agents arrested at his home in Cedar Park, north of Austin, an 18 year old young man living with his parents who are legally in the U.S. and from Venezuela. ICE agents arrested...

For Transgender People Fleeing Violence the U.S. Offers Little Promise of Safety

by Megan Robinson | Apr 7, 2025 | Anti-immigrant law and policy, Human Rights Violations, Immigrant Detention, Migrants and Human Rights

For Transgender People Fleeing Violence, the U.S. Offers Little Promise of Safety by Megan Robinson* Donald Trump has issued a series of executive orders targeting transgender and nonbinary people, as well as migrants. At the U.S.-Mexico border, transgender and...