Administering forced expulsion could be shifted onto the expelled themselves

Evidence

However, one of the commissars, Alonso de Sotomayor (he was actually in charge of the Murcian operation) put forward a highly intelligent suggestion specifically with regard to Old and New Castile. He proposed that some of the Moriscos should be allowed to banish themselves, take themselves into exile. He was thinking above all of the well-assimilated Moriscos, the ex-Mudejars, of Castile. Given that the Spanish authorities were here dealing with people often living in relatively small and geographically dispersed communities, the logistical problems of assembling them and escorting them would have been immense. If the overstretched forces of order could transfer some of the burden of administration onto those being expelled, a nearimpossible task might become feasible. — L. P. Harvey, Muslims in Spain, 1500 to 1614, 1493

Categorization

• SEED: Sotomayor’s insight — outsourcing the logistics of mass expulsion to the expelled — is a striking pattern in state coercion worth an essay on how regimes transfer admin burden onto victims.