Relocation could strengthen rather than weaken Morisco collective identity

Evidence

Some of the groups endured long marches from Granada across testing terrain with, as we have seen, many dying on the way. Other journeys were less stressful, and those who were sent westward into Extremadura, above all to Hornachos, found themselves living in an Arabic-speaking concentration, an autonomous enclave almost, where the process of assimilation, far from being accelerated, seems to have gone into reverse (see chapter 12). — L. P. Harvey, Muslims in Spain, 1500 to 1614, 1114