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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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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...
25th Amendment or Impeachment, What’s the Difference?
IMPEACHMENT v. 25TH AMENDMENT –WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE? By Donna J. Blevins and Elvia R. Arriola, Members of the Women on the Border Board of Directors On January 6, 2021, the nation witnessed an attack on the Capitol grounds by insurrectionists incited by President...
Journey of Immigrant (2014) Notes
Delegates met face to face with about three detainees at one time. ICE allowed a total of 90 minutes. Over 85 persons had signed up to meet with the group. To preserve anonymity and privacy detainees' names are not identified. A detainee's name appears as an...
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Man detained at Georgia immigration detention center dies as hunger strike continues
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Death inside Folkston facility comes as officials allegedly threaten hunger strikers there with force-feeding
