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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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At 20 years…
Reaching Out to One of the Co-Founders of Women on the Border. I met Josefina Castillo when she was the Director of the Austin chapter of the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC). The AFSC is the social justice arm of the Quakers. A few months after I published...
Detention Diary
The story is there – or rather the lived experience is – but it has yet to take narrative form. My task as a volunteer “legal assistant” is to talk it through. To listen and to help the client shape her story so that it will be the right sort of story – to find the...
An Inspiring Poem on Inauguration Day 2021
Below is the text of the poem delivered by Youth Poet Laureate Amanda Gorman at the inauguration of Joseph R. Biden as the 46th President of the United States. When day comes we ask ourselves, where can we find light in this never-ending shade? The loss we carry, a...
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Chicago immigration court violated due process for minors with removal orders, lawmakers say
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U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin and immigration advocates sounded an alarm Wednesday over what they described as systemic due process violations at Chicago's Downtown immigration court.
Trump Has Found a New Way to Sabotage the Asylum Process
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Personnel trained to streamline the system have been suddenly reassigned to tend to administration priorities that can best be described as “spectral.”
