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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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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...
Sexual Terrorism and the Global Economy
Sexual Terrorism, Anti-Terrorism and the Global Economy. ** I was listening to the radio the other day and the nasal voice of President Bush came on in a report about his recent travels to Latin America, Peru and El Salvador and about his tooting the horn for...
Maquilas as Sweatshops
WHAT IS A MAQUILADORA OR WHAT IS A SWEATSHOP? The maquiladora or "sweatshop" is sadly not new. In the early 1900s?American labor history documents the treatment of European immigrant women who toiled 12-15 hour days for the pittance of wages. The infamous fire...
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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
