Migrating for unusual political reasons?

Every American knows the story of the Pilgrims, right? They came to America so they could practice their religion the way they wanted to.

I was just thinking recently about situations where people might migrate for very unusual, or even really wacky, reasons. This could also refer to future history. Obviously, some of these will be more likely than others.

For example, maybe a group of polyamorous people would move to Saudi Arabia where they could legally marry more than one woman.

Or American Evangelicals that move to a cybernetic technocracy...why would they do this, you ask? Simple: The cybernetic technocracy has technology that allows for offspring to be quickly instantiated as thinking, sentient beings after conception. This circumvents any issues regarding abortion, etc. (non-Americans might not know just how big of an issue abortion is here).

I guess another example is people who move to primitive societies to live free from the trappings of modern civilization--although I am unaware of a specific group of people who migrated together to Papua New Guinea or wherever.

Can anyone think of any others that might have happened or might happen in the future? OR situations where this has actually happened?

An interesting example is the Confederados, 10-20k Confederates that fled to Brazil after the Civil War. It's certainly a very unusual situation!
 
For example, maybe a group of polyamorous people would move to Saudi Arabia where they could legally marry more than one woman.

Except in Saudi Arabia a man can only marry four women as Sharia law states, and Saudi Arabia also frowns upon many other practices of polyamorous people (wife-swapping, extramartial sex, etc. is strictly forbidden). A woman in Saudi Arabia cannot marry four men--that's adultery, which is punished by flogging (in rare cases the penalty is execution by stoning).

Or American Evangelicals that move to a cybernetic technocracy...why would they do this, you ask? Simple: The cybernetic technocracy has technology that allows for offspring to be quickly instantiated as thinking, sentient beings after conception. This circumvents any issues regarding abortion, etc. (non-Americans might not know just how big of an issue abortion is here).

Nobody's making them get an abortion, so why should they move? Especially since the militant anti-abortion crowd overlapped with the crowd who screamed how they were moving to Canada/wherever after Obama won in 2008/2012 yet curiously stayed in the US.

Now if there was a technology that imprinted the entire Bible and their Christian theology of choice into the minds of a fetus so that they were born 100% Christian, and their first words were always something like "thank God my body's developed enough to speak", and most countries banned the use of technology to do this, then I could see some Christians moving to that country. And probably fundies of many religions too.

I guess another example is people who move to primitive societies to live free from the trappings of modern civilization--although I am unaware of a specific group of people who migrated together to Papua New Guinea or wherever.

Lots of people do, they just move out into the middle of nowhere to do so. You see this in the US, Canada, and Russia, where there's tons of empty country. New Guinea is more densely populated than 10 US states after all.
 
Except in Saudi Arabia a man can only marry four women as Sharia law states, and Saudi Arabia also frowns upon many other practices of polyamorous people (wife-swapping, extramartial sex, etc. is strictly forbidden). A woman in Saudi Arabia cannot marry four men--that's adultery, which is punished by flogging (in rare cases the penalty is execution by stoning).



Nobody's making them get an abortion, so why should they move? Especially since the militant anti-abortion crowd overlapped with the crowd who screamed how they were moving to Canada/wherever after Obama won in 2008/2012 yet curiously stayed in the US.

Now if there was a technology that imprinted the entire Bible and their Christian theology of choice into the minds of a fetus so that they were born 100% Christian, and their first words were always something like "thank God my body's developed enough to speak", and most countries banned the use of technology to do this, then I could see some Christians moving to that country. And probably fundies of many religions too.



Lots of people do, they just move out into the middle of nowhere to do so. You see this in the US, Canada, and Russia, where there's tons of empty country. New Guinea is more densely populated than 10 US states after all.

Yeah, the first two scenarios are very unlikely in my opinion....they were more flights of fancy.

Another example I can think of is Iran, which oddly allows both the practice of temporary marriage and legally recognizes trans people as the gender they identify with. You wouldn't expect it in a country like that, but it would be hard to come up with a scenario where people specifically moved there because of it.
 
Someone made this cartoon and posted it on AH.com a few years back. I thought it was clever and saved it. I feel like its relevant to this thread.

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Mass Amish exodus from the US if Wisconsin v Yoder gets decided the other way.

People with respiratory health issues moving to Bhutan because they ban smoking.

How about people in the future migrating based on cloning being legal in certain countries, because they want to be cloned but it's illegal in their home country?
 
If Spanish Civil War went in other way around, hundreds of thousands of Francoists would have gone to the Philippines as the latter had a strong Spanish community sympathetic to Francoist cause.
 
The Puritans originally went to the Netherlands to flee persecution in England. They left the Netherlands and went to the colonies because the Dutch were just too fucking liberal for their tastes. It’s like the redneck who moves to Canada because of a dispute with his HOA and then moves back but goes to Alabama because Canadians are too tolerant.
 
Wonder what they'd have thought of the Japanese occupation?

The Philippines was in dire need for settlers in its largest frontier island, Mindanao, and attracting hundreds of thousands of Francoist loyalists would have addressed scarcity of population in that said island. The country was even contemplating in attracting thousands of Holocaust victims but WWII prevented them from coming there in masse.
 
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