Over five hundred thousand Rohingya have fled to neighboring Bangladesh, a country already overpopulated and struggling to meet the needs of hundreds of thousands of refugees.
Many other groups have had similar patterns as migrants within their own countries: Conspicuous among advanced groups are some whose home region is infertile and overpopulated.
She comes from Macao, then a poor and overpopulated Portuguese colony in China, which Goncharov mentions just two pages earlier as the source of the thirty thousand migrants who built Hong Kong.