Many expelled Moriscos went joyfully, seeing expulsion as fulfillment of a lifelong wish

Evidence

It may seem strange that such an enormous movement of population could be set in motion so easily. Why was there not more resistance? (We continue to ask similar questions about such movements in our times.) As we will see, there was armed resistance in a few places, but many went joyfully. This was for some what they had longed for all their lives, what they had been prevented from doing by legislation forbidding emigration to Muslim lands. — L. P. Harvey, Muslims in Spain, 1500 to 1614, 1452

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the psychology of populations who welcome forcible relocation as escape — parallels the study of other mass migrations/expulsions where ‘victims’ collaborated.
• CANDY: A counterintuitive fact: the victims of a forced expulsion largely went willingly, having long dreamed of exactly this outcome.