Forging Ties, Forging PassportsForging 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 Americasand especially to Mexicoin 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