Sanctuary: Who Belongs Here? The Search for Homeland on the U.S.-Mexico Border, 1848-Today

Dedicated to bridging the border and fostering community through education, collaboration and cultural exchange.

One of the leading human rights advocacy and immigration reform organizations located at the U.S./Mexico Border.

Grassroots organization that promotes the human and civil rights of all migrants regardless of their immigration status. Consequently, we fight the militarization of our southern border home and combat the discrimination and human rights abuses of both our citizen and non-citizen brothers and sisters.

Multi-phase grant project funded by the Mellon Foundation. Our goal is to produce and disseminate new, open-access humanities scholarship centering the U.S.-Mexico borderlands by integrating library services into a collaborative research process that emphasizes data-intensive, digital storytelling.

The Florence Project provides free legal services, social services, and advocacy to immigrants facing detention and potential deportation.

The Southern Border Communities Coalition brings together networks from across the southern border to promote policies and solutions that improve the quality of life of border residents.

The South Texas Human Rights Center is a community based center dedicated to the promotion, protection, defense and exercise of human rights and dignity in South Texas.

To celebrate the opening of the Special Collections exhibit “Sanctuary: Who Belongs Here? The Search for Homeland on the U.S.-Mexico Border, 1848 to Today,” activists from the 1980’s movement joined scholars studying and participating in today’s refugee-aid efforts to address the past, present and future of sanctuary on the border. Audio recording of the event is available.

Our mission uniquely combines humanitarian aid to migrants in Nogales, Sonora, Mexico with art-centered creative activism and advocacy in support of migration on the US side of the border.