Kimberly Higuera

Biographic Data

ID1286512
NAMEKimberly Higuera
GIVEN NAMESKimberly
FAMILY NAMEHiguera
SIGNATUREHIGUERA K
AFFILIATIONSCalifornia Polytechnic State University
ORCID0000-0003-2371-9280
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS7
TOTAL CITATIONS5
WORKS AS AUTHOR7
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2020
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX1

  • Transfronterizo Families at the San Diego–Tijuana Border

    Open AccessKimberly Higuera, Karina SantellanoARTICLEJournal of Family Theory & Review2025References: 15

    Transborder or transfronterizo families straddle borders, living their daily lives across nations and commuting across international borders. This article draws on the case of transfronterizo family life at the San Diego, California–Tijuana, Baja California border. Based on existing scholarship, emerging transnational policies, and our own experiences growing up in the San Diego–Tijuana borderland, we suggest a distinction between the form of tra…

  • The immigrant linguistic maturation of Asian American and Latinx language brokers

    Open AccessKimberly HigueraARTICLESociology Compass2024Cited by: 1References: 14

    Immigrant children in the U.S. often learn English before their caretakers, leading them to take on the role of day‐to‐day translators (“language brokers”). This study explores the familial socialization of immigrant, linguistic‐minority families in the U.S. by drawing on deductive‐inductive thematic analysis of 14 semi‐structured interviews with Asian American and Latinx young adult language brokers reflecting on how this role shaped their child…

  • Mechanism mapping

    Open AccessKimberly Higuera, Tomás R JiménezARTICLESocial Science & Medicine2023Cited by: 4References: 32

  • On Measuring Immigrant Income

    Open AccessKimberly HigueraARTICLEContexts2022

    This brief draws on the case of Mexican immigrants, the most populous and constant remitting immigrant group in the United States, to show how remittances are a blind spot for US agencies, like the Census Bureau and IRS. Failing to account for remittance expenses likely leads to the overestimation of income and under-estimation of poverty rates in Mexican immigrant communities. Income and poverty figures of other consistent remitting immigrant gr…

  • Latina Educators in Sociology

    Open AccessKarina Santellano, Kimberly Higuera et al.ARTICLESociology of Race and Ethnicity2021

    In this article, three Latina sociologists discuss how they engage in teaching in a predominantly white discipline during a sociopolitical context of overt xenophobia and racism. Under the Trump administration, the United States has witnessed increased rates in harassment, hate crimes, and mass shootings against people of color. Despite the 2020 Presidential Democratic win, the racist ideology that led to Trump’s sway over voters demands that we …

  • Measuring the predictability of life outcomes with a scientific mass collaboration

    Open AccessM J Salganik, Ian Lundberg et al.ARTICLEProceedings of the National…2020

    How predictable are life trajectories? We investigated this question with a scientific mass collaboration using the common task method; 160 teams built predictive models for six life outcomes using data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study, a high-quality birth cohort study. Despite using a rich dataset and applying machine-learning methods optimized for prediction, the best predictions were not very accurate and were only slightly…

  • The Privilege of Social Distancing

    Open AccessKimberly HigueraARTICLEContexts2020

    In the global pandemic, there is a group of people who are not socially distancing: the precariously employed, the workers who live paycheck to paycheck and lack the flexibility to stay home. In this article, readers are encouraged to consider the many social factors that can impede people from staying home