Current Projects 

Women in Immigration Detention Facilities
Contacts: Nina Rabin, JD, Director of Border Research (rabin@email.arizona.edu) & Patricia Manning MS, Social Services Coordinator and Advocate (pmanning@email.arizona.edu)

SIROW in collaboration with the James E. Rogers College of Law., Florence Immigrant and Refugee Rights Project, the ACLU of Arizona, the Women’s Refugee Commission, and Human Rights Watch. this project provides social support and services to individual detainees. In partnership with the Immigration Law Clinic, we also provide legal services to a select number of detainees each semester. We have formed strong partnerships with nonprofits including the SIROW works jointly with these organizations to improve policies on both the local and national levels that are responsive to the needs of women detainees.    

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Protecting Women's Rights at the Border
Contact: Nina Rabin, JD, (rabin@email.arizona.edu)

Protecting Women's Rights at the Border is a multi-faceted research, education, and advocacy project that aims to protect women's rights in the U.S./Mexico border region. It is a collaborative project of SIROW and the James E. Rogers College of Law. Through its two major initiatives, the Tucson Immigrant Workers’ Project [link] and the Campaign for Women in Immigration Detention Facilities [link], the project focuses on two particularly vulnerable sub-populations of women immigrants: low-wage women workers and women immigrant detainees. Drawing on the synergy of students, researchers, community partners, and the women immigrants themselves, the project aims to address the violations of women’s civil and human rights that occur with increasing frequency in the U.S./Mexico border region. 

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Tucson Women Workers' Project
Contact: Nina Rabin, JD (rabin@email.arizona.edu)

The Tucson Immigrant Workers’ Project provides low-wage immigrant workers, and women workers in particular, with knowledge about their legal rights in the workplace and give them the tools to protect themselves from abuse and exploitation at work.  In partnership with the Immigration Law Clinic at the James E. Rogers College of Law, the Project offers free and confidential legal advice and counseling on workplace rights to low-wage immigrant workers.  

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Immigrant Mothers with Citizen Children: Rethinking Family Welfare Policies in a Transnational Era
Contact: Sally Stevens (sstevens@email.arizona.edu) or Rosi Andrade (rosia@email.arizona.edu)

Research on current welfare laws and policies in a cultural context.

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