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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Hoodeet’s reflection from a border trip to meet the CFO (2001)
HOODEET'S REFLECTIONS Trip to Reynosa, Tamaulipas and Visit with the CFO June 6, 2001 Querid's, This is your Communications Coordinator speaking. I am on the verge of speechlessness. I have made too many travels and received too many impressions in the last few...
CONFERENCE – Sweatshops, cross border trade and NAFTA (Chicago, 2001)
A TWO-DAY FORUM TUESDAY, April 10th, 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm Film Screening and Discussion Maquiladora Worker on the Mexican Border. Photo by Mary Jordan, Washington Post Moderated by Professor Gil Gott, Int’l Studies DePaul University 2320 N. Kenmore Ave....
Sex and Gender Discrimination
Where the Borders of Race, Sex, Gender, Class, Age and Sexuality Meet by Elvia R. Arriola (2000) The problems at the U.S.-Mexico border that have expanded under NAFTA can be understood by looking closely at the maquiladoras for their impact on women's lives. Many...
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