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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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Judy Rosenberg, Doing Justice Work In Mexico
Since Josefina Castillo and I have made so many references to our work in Mexico, and since St. Hildegard's has given wonderful support for some of our projects, and we have in fact just completed a delegation in which Betsy Wilbur participated, I thought it was...
Feminicidio en Ciudad Juárez
Feminicidio sexual serial en Ciudad Juárez: 1993-2001 Julia Monárrez Fragoso Guillermina Valdés-Villalba in memoriam DEBATE FEMINISTA, año 13, Vol. 25, abril 2002. No estamos hablando de los últimos momentos de [estas niñas y mujeres]. Estamos hablando acerca de una...
GLOBALIZATION, WOMEN, IMMIGRATION AND EDUCATION
Speech notes: We can’t talk about globalization without realizing how significant the role of women is in the global economy, whether in Mexico’s efforts to modernize more and get into the First World or throughout the world. Law and public policy’s role in...
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Chicago immigration court violated due process for minors with removal orders, lawmakers say
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U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin and immigration advocates sounded an alarm Wednesday over what they described as systemic due process violations at Chicago's Downtown immigration court.
Trump Has Found a New Way to Sabotage the Asylum Process
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Personnel trained to streamline the system have been suddenly reassigned to tend to administration priorities that can best be described as “spectral.”