Forging Ties, Forging Passports - (Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture) by Devi Mays

Forging Ties, Forging Passports is a groundbreaking history of Ottoman Sephardic Jews who migrated to Mexico in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

This book uncovers the complex relationships these migrants maintained with legal documentation during their migration and settlement in new lands.

Through the stories of individual women, men, and families, Devi Mays explores broader questions of belonging, nationality, and citizenship in a period of upheaval and possibility following World War I and the Mexican Revolution.

This book is a must-read for anyone interested in migration history, transnational networks, and the complexities of nation-building.