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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Law students write on gendered global concerns
The Board of Directors recently approved the creation of a new website page as part of our Resources for Further Study dedicated to a description and highlighting some of the essays and articles produced in the graduate seminar Women, Law and the Changing Global...
Documenting with Photography Life on the U.S.-Mexico Border
Renowned photojournalist David Bacon is known for using photography to humanize the realities of life on the U.S.-Mexican border. His work beautifully highlights the tragedies most people don't see behind the persistent rhetoric that America needs bigger, stronger...
Women and Fair Trade Festival 2022!
HOSTED by our friends at Austin Tan Cerca de la Frontera, the annual Women and Fair Trade Festival is here for One Day Only, Saturday December 3, 2022 from 10 AM to 6 PM at First Unitarian Universalist Church on 4700 Grover Ave, Austin, TX 78756. The Women and Fair...
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