Assimilationist dispersal broke down because local authorities refused to handle deportee relocations

Evidence

The object of splitting the Moriscos up was, of course, to make sure that they assimilated and to make it unlikely that they would upset the political balance in the areas where they were sent. The first part of the operation went off more or less as initially intended: 5,500 reached Seville; 6,000, Toledo; 12,000, Cordoba; 21,000, Albacete. But the second stage of this operation, the breaking up of the groups of deportees, seems not to have been put fully into effect, partly because of the reluctance of the local authorities at the reception centers to make arrangements for the transports of prisoners. For this reason, there was some tendency for numbers of exiled Granadans to build up in the southern parts of Castile. — L. P. Harvey, Muslims in Spain, 1500 to 1614, 1082

Categorization

• XREF: An instance of the ‘policy intent vs. local implementation’ gap — parallels how institutional design intentions fail on the ground, as in the Milgrom law-merchant and diamond-district readings. — connects to: State refusal to acknowledge expellee grievances drove thousands to emigrate West — Manuel Borutta and Jan C. Jansen, Vertriebene and Pieds-Noirs in Postwar…, 189