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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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The quest for social justice in the maquiladoras
The Quest for Social Justice in the Border Factories known as “maquiladoras.” In 2000, several years into the implementation of the North American Free Trade Agreement, a lawsuit, or complaint of sorts was filed by workers in Matamoros (Brownsville,TX) against Custom...
An Environmental Justice Critique of NAFTA…
Synopsis of article by Professor Carmen G. Gonzalez, Seattle University School of Law: An Environmental Justice Critique of Comparative Advantage: Indigenous Peoples, Trade Policy, and the Mexican Neoliberal Economic Reforms, 32 U. Penn. J of Int'l L. 723 (2011): ...
Crazy Mexican Border Politics Since 9-11
Crazy Mexican Border Politics Since September 11, 2001 by Elvia Rosales Arriola State Defiance of Federal Border Control On April 23, 2010 Governor Jan Brewer signed a law passed by the Arizona legislature enabling police officers to demand...
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‘I’d rather die here than in Africa’: Migrants describe violent deportation flight
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More than 25,000 people have been expelled to "third countries" under Trump, including to dangerous and conflict-ridden nations such as the Central Africa Republic.
