Spanish authorities granted better exile terms to groups they feared most

Evidence

The privileged treatment accorded to the Hornacheros during their journey into exile (they were allowed to travel in a group and with their own weapons) is to be explained not by any desire on the part of the authorities to do them favors, but by the reputation that the inhabitants had gained of being tough, awkward adversaries. — L. P. Harvey, Muslims in Spain, 1500 to 1614, 1686

Categorization

• SEED: Angle: how authorities negotiate better terms with the dangerous rather than the compliant — the strategic logic of conceding to one’s feared adversary during forced displacement.