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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Delegate Reflection, Cynthia E.
Life at the Border by Cynthia N. Edwards (NIU 1st year student in 2006) from the delegation to Reynosa, Tamaulipas, October 13-15, 2006 In October 2006, I participated in a delegation to the U.S.-Mexico border. As part of the 12 person delegation, which was...
NIU LAW STUDENTS ATTEND BORDER DELEGATION
DELEGATES VISIT THE HOME OF A MAQUILADORA WORKER LEARNING ABOUT MEXICAN LABOR LAW SOCIAL TIME WITH THE WORKERS TO HEAR THEIR STORIES The educational trip (Fall 2005) involved sending students from Professor Arriola's seminar, Women, Law and the Global Economy down to...
Comment: NIU law students gather border stories
REPORT ON NIU DELEGATION TO THE US MEXICO BORDER (2005) by Yvonne Lapp Cryns Have you ever given any thought to who sews the pants and shirts you wear? Who makes your Nike shoes? Who put the electrical system together for your car? Five NIU College of Law students had...
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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.
