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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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Jess Chapin, Director
JESS CHAPIN has a long history of academic research and activism around the struggles of women, immigrants and gender minorities on the U.S.-Mexico border and within in the U.S. Her doctoral work for a PhD in cultural anthropology addressed issues of gender and...
Donna Hoffman, Director
DONNA HOFFMAN is a communication and community organizing professional with other thirty years’ experience in the non-profit sector. As Communications Coordinator for the Lone Star Chapter of the Sierra Club, she produced over 30 press events, wrote or edited over 200...
Donna J. Blevins, Director and of Counsel
DONNA J BLEVINS, JD, MPP, Board Member and of Counsel to WOB Donna Blevins is a long time resident of Austin and former lobbyist on issues of equity in public education in the State of Texas. She is a licensed attorney in Texas who earned her law degree from...
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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.”
