This research project studies the historical events and actors that led to the creation of the current U.S-Mexico borderline that we know today. The process of creating a border is but a social construction. A border delineates the “us” and the “they,” raising questions of nationality, belonging, and citizenship. Throughout different periods, distinctive socio-economic and political circumstances in the U.S. led to different waves of foreign workers immigrating and settling in the U.S.; some notable groups of people include the Japanese, the Chinese, and the Mexicans. It is worth noting that Mexican migrant workers only began relocating to border areas between the U.S. and Mexico at the turn of the twentieth century. This group’s resettlement to these regions was heavily influenced by different American or Mexican economic programs that tried to employ low-wage workers living along the border areas of the two nations. These programs were the Bracero or the Border Industrialization Program (BIP) in the 1900s. Working in a maquiladora or other low-wage industries was shown to be toxic and abusive, especially for women migrant workers. On that note, the project also includes various notable Chicana writers and artists that empower and challenge the systematic oppression structures that these migrant workers faced and endured over the years.