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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Delegations: Austin Tan Cerca de la Frontera
Why Go on a Delegation? Austin Tan Cerca de la Frontera (ATCF) ATCF organizes quarterly delegations to visit maquiladora workers and communities along the Mexico-U.S. border. The Comité Fronterizo de Obrer@s (CFO: Border Committee of Workers) hosts each group’s...
Julia Monarrez, Serial Sexual Femicide
Serial Sexual Femicide in Ciudad Juárez: 1993-2001 Julia Monárrez Fragoso In memory of Guillermina Valdés-Villalba DEBATE FEMENISTA, 13th Edition, Vol. 25, April 2002. We aren’t talking about the final moments of these children and women. We are talking about a long...
Debbie Nathan, Missing the Story
Missing the Story Debbie Nathan (from The Texas Observer, August 30, 2002) ...The victim, 17, was beaten to death in her parent’s home by her boyfriend, 27. They had two children. He said he murdered her because she was going to marry someone else. ...The...
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