The bible teaches that God sets the boundaries where people live and sovereignly orchestrates the movements of people through many different means, like famine, war, exile, persecution, mass exoduses, etc. Here is an interesting quote from Victor Hugo's The Toilers of the Sea, written while the writer was in exile on the Isle of Guernsey for his political views.
"It is probable that she was French [the mother of the main character]. Volcanoes cast forth stones, and revolutions cast forth men. Families are thus sent to great distances, destinies are expatriated; groups are dispersed and crumbled to pieces: people fall from the clouds, some in Germany, some in England, some in America. They astonish the natives of the country.
Whence come these strangers?
That Vesuvius smoking yonder has spit them out. Names are conferred on these aerolites, on these expelled and lost individuals, on these people eliminated by fate; they are called emigres, refugees, adventurers. If they remain, they are tolerated; if they take their departure, people are relieved.
Sometimes they are absolutely inoffensive individuals, strangers--the women at least--to the events which have driven them forth, cherishing neither hatred not resentment, greatly astonished and involuntary projectiles. The take root again as best they may. They have harmed no one, and do not understand what has happened to them. I have seen a poor tuft of grass dashed wildly into the air by an explosion in a mine. The French revolution, more than any other explosion, was characterized by these distant projections.
The woman who was called "la Gilliatt" in Guernesey was, perchance, such a tuft of grass."
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