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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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Women Migrants Flee Gender Violence
(photo credit: Orlando Sierra/AFP/Getty Images) In recent months, the U.S. has a new administration, the number of people crossing the southern border has risen and with it the number of stories in the news, but the reasons that people flee their homelands to seek...
Apprehensions Rise at the Border
Myth or fact? Both, actually. On the one hand, anti-immigrant voices are telling the American people that there is an enormous and unmanageable “surge” of migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border that is a direct result of Joe Biden becoming president. “Be very...
Trying to Make Sense of Immigration Topics in the News
In the News: Immigration. Unaccompanied minors. Terrible holding facilities. Overstays in detention. COVID. Asylum seekers. Families being sent back. Smugglers. It‘s all so confusing. As you hear journalists describing the problems at the border do you find...
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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.
