Expulsion rules stripped away Morisco fathers from children who stayed with Christian mothers
Evidence
- Children of six and below with a single Old Christian parent might remain, and the mother as well, even though she was a Morisco woman. But if the father were a Morisco and his wife were an Old Christian, he should be expelled, and children under six should remain behind with the mother. — L. P. Harvey, Muslims in Spain, 1500 to 1614, 1443
Categorization
- XREF: The asymmetric treatment of Morisco fathers vs. mothers in custody parallels the gendered fragmentation of families in mass deportation law, connecting to work on how states break families to consolidate ethnic boundaries.
- DEFINE: This clause reveals how Spanish law gendered the category of ‘Old Christian’ parent — a mother’s faith determined custody, a father’s did not.