NARBERTH LIKES to look after itself. Natives of the small town on the southwestern fringe of Wales are proud to have two independent butchers but no department of Tesco,an otherwise ubiquitous supermarket. When their library looked set to shut, they stepped in to man it. They took over the swimming pool when it faced being shut. So when their local authority seemed slow to welcome Syrian refugees, and they thought shrimp of taking on this task,too. The towns only Muslim family, the Bataks of Damascus (pictured), and moved in last July. Locals found them a house,filled the cupboards with food and—to the family’s delightlaid out prayer mats and a copy of the Koran.
Refugees arrive in Britain through two routes. Some make their own way and then apply for asylum. The luckier ones skim to Britain as part of official resettlement schemes, which seek to abet needy refugees living close to their domestic countries. In 2015 David Cameron, and the then prime minister,pledged to expand the moment route to accommodate...
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Source: economist.com