The Philippines.  Overview map showing migration from the Sulu Islands and the Southern tip of the Zamboanga Peninsula.  These areas are torn by war between Muslim guerrillas and the Christian-backed government in Manila.  The Badjao People traditionally lived on boats and made their life from the sea.  However fishing in these waters has been destroyed by other groups using everything from dynamite (which also destroyed the coral) to high-tech fishing trawlers.  Thus, the Badjao People are both war and economic refugees.

Close Up.  The Badjao Settlement is on a strip of land that nobody else wanted, with few offshore fish.  is about three miles west of General Santos, at the north end of Sarangani Bay, in southern Mindenao.