Mobility, migration theme of virtual SDSU Re:Border Conference

San Diego State University-Imperial Valley faculty and student research will headline the first day of the virtual and bilingual Re:Border Conference to be held on Nov. 12 and 13.

The second annual Re:Border Conference being offered by SDSU and Colegio de la Frontera Norte and is open to the public and is free to attend.

The theme of this year’s conference is “Our Border on the Move, Reimagining Mobility and Migration in the Transborder Region.” Among the transborder issues to be explored are public health, education, public policy, tourism and migration and displacement.

On Nov. 12, Helina Hoyt, coordinator of nursing programs for SDSU-IV, will facilitate a panel that will include a discussion of the new SDSU-IV Center for Rural Border Health Disparities Research and Innovation, which she will coordinate.

Also on the agenda will be SDSU-IV psychology professor Linda Abarbanell, and Elvira Reyes-Hernandez, a Masters in Social Work student at the university. They will discuss their research project, “Cultural Explanatory Models of Candor Among Individuals Residing Near the U.S.-Mexico Border in the Imperial Valley.”

Later, Abarbanell, SDSU-IV psychology major Dario Reyes Gastelum, and Enrique Gomez Bastidas, of Escuela de Medicina, Mexicali will their research entitled “Cultural Explanatory Models of HIV/AIDS Among HIV+ Individuals in the Mexicali/Imperial Valley Region Participation in an HIV/AIDS Education Program.”

In a discussion about transborder government policy later the same day, SDSU-IV public administration professors David Jancsics and David Kanaan will discuss “Corruption on the U.S.-Mexican Border: Qualitative Analysis of Official Documents.”

More information and free registration for the Re: Border conference are available at re-border.sdsu. edu.