In the years since, the countryside has continued to experience environmental and economic degradation as well as exodus, while the big cities, especially Port-au-Prince, have become overcrowded.
Friday's series of coordinated attacks by Rohingya insurgents on security forces in the north of Myanmar's Rakhine state and ensuing clashes triggered the Rohingya exodus, while the government evacuated thousands of Rakhine Buddhists.
"There has to be a place where you feel you belong," but outside the Georgenhof the catastrophe of homelessness has been set in motion, as ordinary Germans begin the westward exodus, while, inside the big house, bags are already packed, and preparations to leave are being discussed.
Should anyone else win, notably Duffy, then I would expect a mass exodus while Farage, the influential donor Arron Banks and their followers form a new movement based on the data that Leave.EU amassed during the referendum.
With Qatar, rich and under populated, they have shut their doors to the Syrian refugee exodus while others carry the burden: Turkey, 1.9 million; Lebanon, 1.2 million; Egypt, 132,000; Germany, 800,000.
All the while, the exodus of Albanians from the north side continued, a human outpouring that started when four Albanians were killed and several Serbs were injured in a night of violence on Feb. 3. Today, one family escaped their house as it was set alight, United Nations police said.
But if the EU and individual states jump too rashly and simply throw money at Eritrea, they risk entrenching the very practices that lie behind much of the exodus, while doing precious little to stem it.
"Economy, economy, economy," said Fayez Khano, 63, a member of the Assyrian community, explaining the reasons for the continuing exodus while cutting olive-wood figurines in his family workshop on Manger Street.
Dutch and German citizens have also been advised to join the exodus, while Egypt has restricted movement across its border with Libya due to security concerns.
Working in a classically unobtrusive documentary style, Mr. Fan, who was an associate producer on an earlier Sundance entry, "Up the Yangtze," conveys the enormity of this exodus while bringing you close to a family whose fraught efforts to reunite — the parents work in a city, the children are in the country with a grandmother — are symptomatic of a deeper struggle affecting China.
Tunisia is confronted with a mass Libyan exodus; while Iraqi Kurdistan is home to more than 300,000 Iraqis displaced only since June, as well as 220,000 Syrian refugees.
