This Circle will work to become educated about immigration and its impact in the U.S. and in other countries, especially Mexico and Latin America, as it pertains to women.

Undocumented women in the U.S. suffer particular injustices, including the threat of deportation, the threat of being separated from their children, economic and sexual exploitation in the workforce, and lack of access to health care and services. Undocumented children raised and educated in the U.S. are unable to get scholarships or work professionally. In other parts of the world, such as Latin America, many communities are held together by mothers and grandmothers left behind to raise children. These are some of the issues we may be discussing.

The Immigration Education Circle reflects WDN’s key themes of Health and Human Rights and Social and Economic Justice: Striving to ensure that all people have an optimal state of physical, mental and social well-being by having access to basic rights and freedoms to which all humans are entitled and ensuring that all people to have the right to basic necessities and economic well being through the equitable distribution of wealth and power. These are two of our seven key areas of work and study.