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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U.S. Trade policy and Immigration
COMMENTARY: The border, migrant laborers, the maquiladoras and now ICE jails and deportation. Why hasn't the discourse on immigration reform ever taken into account how NAFTA produced waves of migration to the U.S.? Or how CAFTA created maquiladora jobs but did...
Connecting the Dots
Connecting the Dots: How Trade Policy and Immigration Intersect Posted on December 10, 2019 by ELVIA Journey of an Immigrant Delegation, WOB and ATCF, May 2012. The bizzare construction of border walls that hurt residents, migrants and wlldlife. COMMENT The border,...
Trump’s border wall
Donald Trump has managed to get his border wall argues journalist for the Los Angeles Times Rachel Morris in her article entitled "Trump Got His Border Wall After All." Morris' article provides an in-depth look at the U.S. attitudes towards migrants, refugees and...
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