As questions relating to migrant crises are of increasing concern globally, it is imperative to not only gain a greater understanding of the sources of violent conflict that fuel forced migration, but also how those most impacted by violence seek to resist these oppressive forces in their everyday lives. This ethnographic inquiry focuses on the forms of resistance practiced by a group of women from Central America and Mexico who organize an annual caravan that travels through Mexico to search for their missing family members and to denounce the violence that plagues the region. Like several other women’s activist groups in Latin America, these women draw on their identities as mothers to frame their activism. This study seeks to advance our knowledge of gender and migration by shifting the focus from those who are making the journey themselves, to consider the impact of displacement and violence on their family members and how women respond to these oppressive forces through activism and resistance. This study will further examine the strategies of resistance taken by women within this context of extreme threat and violence, and will explore the disruptions and continuities to gendered relations of power that may be fostered through the women’s participation in activism.