Selected Research:

 Mercado, A. (2023).  Oaxacalifornia: Indigenous transnational    spaces as Grassroots Cosmopolitanism. Mediaciones (30)19, pp. 155-170. DOI: https://doi.org/10.26620/

Mercado, A. and González-Hernández, D. (2022). The Power of Critical Bilingual Spaces in School and Community to Counteract Subtractive Assimilation of Latinx Migrants in the US. In, Retis J., and Sánchez, A. (eds.) Communicative Spaces in Bilingual Contexts: Discourses, Synergies and Counterflows in Spanish and English. Routledge

Mercado, A. (2021). Mujeres de la Comunicación: a fundamental book in the discipline. Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society, 4:1, DOI: 10.1080/25729861.2021.1999164

Mercado, A. and González, J. (2021, October 2). We must honor Día de los Muertos’ Indigenous roots. San Diego Union Tribune. Available: https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/opinion/commentary/story/2021-10-29/dia-de-los-muertos-history-traditions-altar

González-Hernández, D., Mercado, A. González, J.M., Delgado, E. (2020). Televisión, melodrama y bioseries: Juan Gabriel, Luis Miguel, y José José [Television, melodrama and bioseries: Juan Gabriel, Luis Miguel, y José José]. Comunicación y Sociedad. doi: https://doi.org/10.32870/cys.v2020.7492

Mercado, A. (2019). Mediated images of success: Hegemonic media representation and social justice. Communication Teacher, 33:2, 94-98, DOI: 10.1080/17404622.2018.1500701

Mercado, A. (2019).  Decolonizing national public spheres: Indigenous migrants as transnational counterpublics. In Roza Tsagarouisianou & Jessica Retis (Eds.), The Handbook of Diasporas, Media and Culture. Hoboken, New Jersey: Willey Blackwell and IAMCR.

Mercado, A. (2018).  When borders are the intervention and colonialism the framework: Indigenous migrants in the US. In D. Travers Scott & Adrienne Shaw (Eds.), Interventions: Communication theory and practice. New York, NY: Peter Lang.

Romero D. & Mercado, A. (2018). Cleaning San Diego: Migration, geography, exclusion and resistance. Ethnicities. doi: 10.1177/1468796817740174

Mercado, A. (2018). Civic engagement: Learning from teaching community praxis. Mari Castañeda & Joseph Krupczynski (Eds.), Learning from Diverse Latina/o Communities: Social Justice Approaches to Civic Engagement (pp. 21-35). New York, NY: Peter Lang. 

Mercado, A. (2015). El Tequio: Social capital, civic advocacy journalism and the construction of a transnational public sphere by Mexican Indigenous migrants in the US. Journalism, 16(2), 238-256. doi: 10.1177/1464884913509782

Mercado. A. (2015). Medios Indígenas Trasnacionales: El fomento del Cosmopolitismo desde abajo. [Transnational Indigenous Media: Fostering Grassroots Cosmopolitanism]. Comunicación y Sociedad 23:171-193.  issn 0188-252x