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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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...
Josefina Castillo, Co-founder and Director
DR. JOSEFINA CASTILLO: “As a sociologist and as a woman, I’ve always been concerned with issues that address social and gender equality. Also my faith has always influenced my personal stance and beliefs in non-violent conflict transformation. These factors have...
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Houston Is Testing Whether Trump’s ICE Is Above Texas Law
www.texasobserver.org
After the fatal shooting of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, local authorities have struggled to stake their claim on an investigation into a killing within the most populous Texas city’s limits.
Breakneck pace in immigration courts is driving up deportation orders
apnews.com
The Trump administration is packing immigration courtrooms and giving less lead-time on hearings in an effort to clear a decades-long backlog.
ICE Detained Them, and Then They Vanished
www.themarshallproject.org
Under Trump, the U.S. increasingly sends immigrants all over the nation with little warning, leaving families and attorneys unsure where they are.