Since 1987, BorderLinks has been facilitating educational immersion trips for delegations in the Arizona-Sonora region and beyond the border to Chiapas.
Our mission
BorderLinks is a community-based organization where people collectively learn, teach, reflect, share resources, and organize for justice in the borderlands. Through popular education rooted in place and lived experience, BorderLinks and community partners inspire and ignite action to transform unjust border and (im)migration laws and conditions. We belong to movements for social transformation & collective liberation.
OUR VISION
We dream of a just world where there is freedom of movement for all peoples, communities in the borderlands have what they need to thrive, and everyone’s full, collective humanity and dignity is honored. We believe in the power of strategic movements to create transformative change, justice, and collective liberation while dismantling interlocking systems of oppression.
our major questions
Why do people migrate?
Participate in educational programs designed to challenge and confront the policies and circumstances that lead to migration.
What happens during the migrant journey?
Walk desert trails to understand the strenuous journey that migrants experience while attempting to cross the U.S./Mexico border.
How do policies impact people?
Meet with community organizers and local advocates who are working to create economic and social opportunities in the borderlands.
Photography provided by Nieves Montaño
“I carry the lives of 6,000 immigrants who didn’t survive the border crossing. I carry the lives of all the residents living in an occupied war zone along the border. I now live with the crimes against humanity that our nation have enacted along our border and abroad.”