In this body of work, I examine the distinction between migration by choice and exile by force. While migration may be driven by opportunity or necessity, exile is defined by the loss of choice—the forced departure from one’s home due to persecution, violence, or political instability. Drawing from Jewish histories of expulsion and displacement, I explore how experiences of exile are remembered, categorized, and rewritten, and how those forced to flee can be reduced to stereotypes rather than understood through the realities that shaped their journeys. The work examines what is carried forward, what is lost, and how memory preserves what history attempts to erase.