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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.
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Exploitation in global factories has led women workers to fight for fair wages and empower themselves through fair trade networks.
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With social critique and humor artists and activists reimagine human relationships along the U.S.-Mexico border.
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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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Mission of Women on the Border
Women on the Border is a Texas-based 501c3 non profit organization engaged in educational projects involving contact with women who are fighting against abuses by U.S. based investor corporations under the North American Free Trade Agreement. We are dedicated to...
What is a Maquiladora?
The term "maquiladora" has been equated with "sweatshop." According to the workers active in the CFO, It is a place where workers get no respect, where they are treated like machines, not humans, where often their tasks in a time pressured work day they have to use...
What is NAFTA?
The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) is an agreement signed by the governments of Canada, Mexico, and the United States, creating a trilateral trade bloc in North America. The agreement came into force on January 1, 1994. It superseded the Canada –...
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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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