Thailand has for decades borne the brunt of refugee exoduses from South-East Asian conflicts, including wars in Cambodia, Laos and Myanmar.
When nations as poor and beleaguered as Lebanon and Jordan have provided shelter for millions, when Germany has found 20 or more places for every one that Britain is to provide, and when we have taken in far larger figures in previous exoduses from Uganda, Vietnam and Kosovo, for example, it is an inadequate response, materially and morally.
The militant's assault on the town and its surrounding villages has lasted for weeks, forcing some 160,000 people to flee across the frontier in one of the biggest single exoduses of Syria's civil war.
In the latest of many exoduses along the road in recent days, pickup after pickup, spray-painted with revolutionary graffiti, roared past carrying the wounded and, in some cases, dead fighters.
While previous exoduses by investors from volatile emerging markets have caused waves of bank failures, corporate bankruptcies and mass layoffs, the latest retrenchment has been much milder so far.
But the Miser knows from experience that nothing beats seeing "Steamboat Bill Jr". while sandwiched between breast-feeding moms and enduring endless potty-break exoduses, all underscored by an aria of teething tantrums and the crunch of Skittles underfoot.
There have been previous exoduses, especially from Mosul.
Refugees went on exoduses, only to find their way often cut off by flaming roadblocks.
"To see how it's blossomed to this is like 'Wow!' " The story of Southside begins with two epic exoduses.
Time and again over the last millennium, Roma movement has been more than purely cultural; it is as likely to be political, a series of displacements and exoduses triggered by prejudice and social panics.
