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.
Read Our Blog
COVID-19: And What About the Migrants in the Border Shelters?
REIMAGINING THE BORDER -- VOICES AT THE BORDER Common Ground Voices/La Frontera creates community music projects in collaboration with refugee shelters at the Mexico-US border. Their recent project DOS CUERPOS is available on YouTube. WHAT IS COMMON GROUND VOICES/LA...
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...
Follow Us On Social Media
WOMEN ON THE BORDER
(opens in a new tab)Social justice education.
This content isn't available right now
When this happens, it's usually because the owner only shared it with a small group of people, changed who can see it or it's been deleted.
Man detained at Georgia immigration detention center dies as hunger strike continues
www.theguardian.com
Death inside Folkston facility comes as officials allegedly threaten hunger strikers there with force-feeding
