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.

Read Our Blog

Documenting with Photography Life on the U.S.-Mexico Border

by Elvia Arriola | Mar 6, 2023 | Anti-immigrant law and policy, Further Study, Human Rights Violations, Maquiladoras, Migrants and Human Rights, NAFTA, Reimagining the Border, Visual Arts, Women and Globalization Bibliography

Renowned photojournalist David Bacon is known for using photography to humanize the realities of life on the U.S.-Mexican border. His work beautifully highlights the tragedies most people don't see behind the persistent rhetoric that America needs bigger, stronger...

Women and Fair Trade Festival 2022!

by Elvia Arriola | Dec 2, 2022 | Fair Trade, Fair Trade Resources, Women and Fair Trade Events, Women and Globalization

HOSTED by our friends at Austin Tan Cerca de la Frontera, the annual Women and Fair Trade Festival is here for One Day Only, Saturday December 3, 2022 from 10 AM to 6 PM at First Unitarian Universalist Church on 4700 Grover Ave, Austin, TX 78756. The Women and Fair...

Labor Day Event Supporting Workers and Immigrants

by Elvia Arriola | Sep 10, 2022 | Advocacy and Activism, Anti-immigrant law and policy, Maquiladoras, Migrants and Human Rights, NAFTA, Women and Globalization

On Labor Day weekend 2022, organizers for labor, immigrant and gender justice gathered at the Friends Meeting House of Austin for an event produced by Austin Tan Cerca de la Frontera. The well attended workshop event was titled Border...