Publications

Zimmerman M. Arely. Contentious Transnationalism: Salvadoran American activism across Borders. Arizona University Press. In progress and under contract.

Zimmerman, Arely M. “Central American identity and the politics of solidarity in Los Angeles.” Revised and resubmitted to Latino Studies (a peer-reviewed journal) on March 8, 2024.

Henry Jenkins, Neta Kligler-Vilenchik, Liana Gamber-Thompson, Sangita Shresthova, and Arely M. Zimmerman (2016). “By Any Media Necessary: The New Youth Activism.” NYU Press. New York, NY.

Zimmerman, Arely, Joanna Perez, and Leisy J Abrego. “Complexities of Belonging: Compounded Foreignness and Racial Cover among Undocumented Central American Youth.” Ethnicities, 2022.

Ito, Mizuko, Elisabeth Soep, Neta Kligler-Vilenchik, Sangita Shresthova, Liana Gamber-Thompson, and Arely Zimmerman. “Learning connected civics: Narratives, practices, infrastructures.” In Cultural Production and Participatory Politics, pp. 10-29. Routledge, 2020.

Zimmerman, Arely M. “Transmedia Testimonio: Examining Undocumented Youth’s Political Activism in the Digital Age.” International Journal of Communication 10 (2016): 21. DOI: 1932–8036/20160005

Zimmerman, Arely M. “Contesting citizenship from below: Central Americans and the struggle for inclusion.” Latino Studies (2015) 13:28. DOI:10.1057/lst.2014.71

Zimmerman, Arely M. “Against Borders: Latinx Youth Activism and Enactments of Citizenship.” Rodolfo Rosales, Ed. Making Citizenship Work: Culture and Community. Taylor & Francis, 2022. pp. 191-206, DOI: 10.4324/9781003169833-14.

Zimmerman, Arely M. “How did we get here? Central Americans and Immigration Policy from Reagan to Trump” in Trumpism, Mexican America, and the Struggle for Latinx Citizenship. Phillip Gonzales, Renato Rosaldo, and Mary Louise Pratt, eds. School of Advanced Research. University of New Mexico Press, 2021.

Zimmerman, Arely M. “Temporary Protected Status: Geopolitics & Refugee Rights” in Jessica Lavariega Monforti (ed.), Latinos in the American Political System: An Encyclopedia of Latinos as Voters, Candidates, and Office Holders. 2019. ABC-CLIO. ISBN: 9781440853463.

Zimmerman, Arely M. “DACA as liminal legality” in Jessica Lavariega Monforti (ed.), Latinos in the American Political System: An Encyclopedia of Latinos as Voters, Candidates, and Office Holders. 2019. ABC-CLIO. ISBN: 9781440853463.

Zimmerman, Arely M. “A Dream Detained: Undocumented Latino Youth and the DREAM Movement.” NACLA Report on the Americas 44, no. 6 (2011): 14–17.

Zimmerman, Arely M. “The Participatory Pleasures of Anti-Migrant Politics: Review of Cristina Beltrán’s Cruelty as Citizenship: How Migrant Suffering Sustains White Democracy.” Theory & Event 27, no. 1. January 2024: 132–34.

Zimmerman, Arely M. Book Review of The Cultural Politics of U.S. Immigration: Gender, Race, and Media by Leah Perry. New York: New York University Press, 2017.

Manuel Pastor, Arely M. Zimmerman, Anthony Perez, Michelle Saucedo, and Jennifer Ito, “Cultivating the Dream: The Impact of Dream Summer on a new Generation of Leaders,” USC Program for Environmental and Regional Equity (PERE), Commissioned by UCLA Labor Center, Funded by Unbound Philanthropy, Los Angeles, CA 2013.

Zimmerman Arely M. “Documenting DREAMs: New Media, Undocumented Youth and the Immigrant Rights Movement,” A Case Study Working Paper for the Media, Activism and Participatory Politics Project, MacArthur Foundation Digital Media and Learning, 2012.