Expelled Moriscos undercut Castilian wages, sparking laborer resentment

Evidence

Once they had arrived in Castile, the granadinos might meet resentment from Christian manual laborers who foresaw dangerous economic competition. “Many folk who used to earn their living as laborers can no longer do so because the scattering of the Moriscos over the whole kingdom has brought the daily wages down. The Moriscos take the work and leave the local people with nothing” (Tapia 1991, 152). — L. P. Harvey, Muslims in Spain, 1500 to 1614, 1094