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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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Pictures from visits to Ciudad Acuña
The disparities at the border are obvious... fancy offices for the maquiladora owners, poor and run down housing for the workers... who have children Worker's Housing, Cd. Acuña
Accountability for Corporate Abuse of Maquiladora Workers under NAFTA, Administrative Complaints v Lawsuits
EDITOR'S NOTE (2019) - This research may no longer be relevant under the Trump Administration. Efforts have been made to nullify NAFTA and to replace it with a new trade agreement known as USMCA. ACCOUNTABILITY FOR CORPORATE ABUSE AT THE MEXICAN BORDER --...
The globalizing economy and immigration conflicts
WOB COMMENT: Historical Context Current arguments about immigration point the finger of blame at the Mexican undocumented who are in the U.S. "sin papeles" (without legal status). Of course Mexicans have been coming north since thirteen little British colonies,...
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Houston Is Testing Whether Trump’s ICE Is Above Texas Law
www.texasobserver.org
After the fatal shooting of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, local authorities have struggled to stake their claim on an investigation into a killing within the most populous Texas city’s limits.
Breakneck pace in immigration courts is driving up deportation orders
apnews.com
The Trump administration is packing immigration courtrooms and giving less lead-time on hearings in an effort to clear a decades-long backlog.
ICE Detained Them, and Then They Vanished
www.themarshallproject.org
Under Trump, the U.S. increasingly sends immigrants all over the nation with little warning, leaving families and attorneys unsure where they are.