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The Southwest Institute on Women (SIROW) and the Women's Studies Department at the University of Arizona are pleased to announce an exciting student exchange opportunity! 

If you are a University of Arizona student wanting to learn more .

If you want to become a visiting exchange student at the University of Arizona .

About the Program

Women’s increased cross-border migrations and organization have raised a host of human rights issues since the rise of free trade agreements among the US, Canada, and Mexico. Therefore, there is a greater need to generate cross-border understandings of women’s experiences, perspectives, and issues in a North American context.

This exchange program represents a collaborative effort to develop student-centered programs of study that bring a greater North American Studies dimension to Women’s Studies programs at the University of Arizona.

This exchange program focuses on three themes:
1) Understanding of how international human rights have been expanded through the work of women’s human rights scholars and activists; 2) Differences in women’s formal citizenship rights in our respective countries and how citizenship rights are gained or lost as women cross borders in the region; 3) Sub-national identities (gender, race, ethnicity, culture, age, class, religion) and how these identities vary across nations.

The program is supported by a grant from the U.S. Department of Education’s Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education through the Program for North American Mobility in Higher Education.