This senior thesis explores the intersection of the social, cultural and political elements that defined the Levantine migrant experience in Mexico during the 1920s. During this decade, a series of immigration laws restricted access for Levantine migrants entering Mexico. These changes in policy were partly a reflection of a larger process of state-formation, which included the institutionalization of a post-revolutionary national identity in Mexico. This thesis argues that bringing attention to the dynamics between Levantine migrants and Mexican citizens can help understand the anti-immigration policies of 1920s Mexico as part and parcel of a larger social history of Mexican nationalism.