The Rohingya in Myanmar number more than one million and are widely reviled in the country, where anti-Muslim feeling run strong among the majority Buddhist population. The resentment toward the Rohingya appears to be grounded in the notion that they came during colonial time or more recently and that they do not belong. The preferred path of the Rohingya and of Bangladeshi migrants has been to board boats in the Indain Ocean and head to Malaysia,where they seek jobs or political asylum, and often both. A delegate from Malaysia at the conference said that his country was currently home to 152,830 registered asylum seekers and refugees, of whom 149,920 were from Myanmar.