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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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,...
PROJECT ON GENDER, HUMAN RIGHTS AND GLOBALIZATION
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...
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Man detained at Georgia immigration detention center dies as hunger strike continues
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Death inside Folkston facility comes as officials allegedly threaten hunger strikers there with force-feeding
