Forging ties, forging passports : migration and the modern sephardi diaspora / Devi Mays.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mays, Devi, author.

Series:

Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture.

Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sephardim--Mexico--History--20th century.

Sephardim.

Jews, Turkish--Mexice--History--20th century.

Jews, Turkish.

Mexico--Politics and government--1910-1946.

Mexico.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (359 pages).

Place of Publication:

Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2020]

Summary:

Forging Ties, Forging Passports is a history of migration and nation-building from the vantage point of those who lived between states. Devi Mays traces the histories of Ottoman Sephardi Jews who emigrated to the Americas—and especially to Mexico—in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and the complex relationships they maintained to legal documentation as they migrated and settled into new homes. Mays considers the shifting notions of belonging, nationality, and citizenship through the stories of individual women, men, and families who navigated these transitions in their everyday lives, as well as through the paperwork they carried. In the aftermath of World War I and the Mexican Revolution, migrants traversed new layers of bureaucracy and authority amid shifting political regimes as they crossed and were crossed by borders. Ottoman Sephardi migrants in Mexico resisted unequivocal classification as either Ottoman expatriates or Mexicans through their links to the Sephardi diaspora in formerly Ottoman lands, France, Cuba, and the United States. By making use of commercial and familial networks, these Sephardi migrants maintained a geographic and social mobility that challenged the physical borders of the state and the conceptual boundaries of the nation.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

A NOTE ON TRANSLITERATION

INTRODUCTION

CHAPTER 1. FABRICATING THE FOREIGN

CHAPTER 2. PATRIOT GAMES

CHAPTER 3. UNCERTAIN FUTURES

CHAPTER 4. “THEY ARE ENTIRELY EQUAL TO THE SPANISH”

CHAPTER 5. THE SEPHARDI CONNECTION

CHAPTER 6. FORGE YOUR OWN PASSPORT

CONCLUSION

NOTES

WORKS CITED

INDEX

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781503613225

1503613224

OCLC:

1198929428