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.
But the government says the elephants are overpopulated in Zimbabwe, destructive to the ecosystem and potentially deadly to people when they're driven to human settlements in search of food and water.
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.