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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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Delegate reflection: Melissa G.H.
Melissa went on a delegation with support from WOB. The experiential learning of a delegation brings to life the impact of U.S. and Mexico trade agreements. ********** Dear Women on the Border, My name is Melissa Gamez-Herrera and I participated in the Austin...
Migrants resist systemic discrimination in for-profit detention centers…
Visitor to an ICE Detention Center Austin immigration and civil rights lawyer Virginia Raymond and retired law professor Elvia Arriola (Director for WOB) authored a critique of the for-profit detention system for immigration. Giant global companies like GeoGroup, Inc....
Border crossing
I’ve crossed American soil The fine line that divides poverty between the land of opportunity I’ll always remember my Mexican sisters across the border, but will I practice what they preach? Or pretend I’m someone I’m not cut out to be? Forget my identity and sell my...
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A Texas Immigration Lawyer Breaks Down Family Detention, Habeas Corpus, and Senate Bill 4
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The revival of the Dilley detention center and a scorched-earth approach to immigration arrests has led advocates to embrace a novel strategy rooted in old law.
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