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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Delegation to Piedras Negras, Coahuila, October 7-9, 2011
Flyer announcement by delegation organizers, Austin Tan Cerca de la Frontera (ATCF). Travel is for a three-day weekend beginning with an orientation session the Thursday night before departure on a Friday morning, from Austin, Texas. Click...
In Memory of Denise Vergez, WOB’s first website administrator
Denise "Neecy" Ann Vergez, January 21, 1965 - July 18, 2011 Women on the Border lost a true friend on July 18, 2011 when Denise "Neecy" Ann Vergez ended her eight year battle with ovarian cancer. She was 46 years old. Denise designed and created the first website for...
Historical note on Immigration from Mexico…
Although there has been an increased focus on Mexican immigration to the United States, Mexicans have been migrating north for better opportunities since our nation was formed. When the U.S. gained control of the Southwest, the Mexican population that was living...
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