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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PROJECT ON GENDER, HUMAN RIGHTS AND GLOBALIZATION

by Elvia Arriola | Apr 10, 2005 | Advocacy and Activism, Further Study, Maquiladoras, NAFTA

Background for NIU Seminar, Women, Law and the Global Economy, produced by Professor Elvia R Arriola, Northern Illinois University College of Law This is a multifaceted project that offers students an opportunity to learn about the impact of globalization by...

WOB lost a friend and translator, Octavio I. Rosales Arriola (1956-2005)

by Elvia Arriola | Jan 31, 2005 | Advocacy and Activism, Further Study

Octavio Ignacio Rosales Arriola, was killed in a tragic car accident in Spain on January 29, 2005. He was 49 years old. Octavio and his twin sister Ramona, who lived but one day, were born on June 15, 1955 to Maria Luz Arriola de Rosales in Los Angeles, California....

Prof Arriola’s globalization seminar description (2004-2015)

by Elvia Arriola | Aug 18, 2004 | Further Study, Maquiladoras, NAFTA

SCHOLARSHIP SEMINAR: WOMEN, LAW AND THE GLOBAL ECONOMY INSTRUCTOR: Elvia R. Arriola This is a legal scholarship seminar. Students are introduced to the concepts of globalization of the economy and the arguments for and against free trade, regulation of trade, and...