Political and economic disasters are still disasters, disasters which many people flee out of desperation and not necessarily because they were responsible. And

Political and economic disasters are still disasters, disasters which many people flee out of desperation and not necessarily because they were responsible. And while the parallels between political/economic disasters and natural disasters may be weak, we have a more recent example of people fleeing to the Americas because either because of the political turmoil or eventual ruin of their homelands. (I am thinking specifically of WWII.)