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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WOB HISTORY PHOTOS

by Elvia Arriola | Dec 18, 2018 | Advocacy and Activism, Maquiladoras, NAFTA

WOMEN ON THE BORDER HISTORY PHOTOS

ATCF delegation video

by Elvia Arriola | Sep 16, 2018 | Delegations, Maquiladoras, NAFTA, Organizations, Resources, Women and Globalization

Why go on a delegation to the border to meet maquiladora workers? Click here for an informational video.

Resources on Immigration or Detention crises

by Elvia Arriola | Sep 13, 2018 | Anti-immigrant law and policy, Human Rights Violations, Immigrant Detention, Immigration ABCs, Migrants and Human Rights

There are over 250 detention centers operating throughout the U.S. (see Detention by the Numbers) Most immigration processing centers are managed by a few private prison corporations such as GEO GROUP. Detained immigrants who aren't citizens, lack documentation or...