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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Border Talks, Community Action – a Labor Day Event
What is the status of gender justice at the border today? You are invited to come and learn about what working women are doing for gender justice in the maquiladoras along the Texas-Mexico border. Our friends at Austin Tan Cerca de la Frontera (ATCF) have organized a...
Urgent appeal: help reunite an asylum lesbian mom and her kids
Women on the Border has received an appeal from the lawyer who helped "Djaili" (a pseudonym), get asylum in the U.S. following the persecution and torture of her for being in a lesbian relationship in Cameroon. Djaili was recently awarded permanent legal residence....
New on our website: How should we be thinking about “the U.S.-Mexico border”?
Women on the Border began in the early 2000s as a project committed to advancing public awareness of the difficult realities for Mexican women working for American companies at the U.S.-Mexico border in the factories known as "maquiladoras." The presence of...
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