Refugees are transforming the cultural mix of our societies. We need modern ways to confront our fearsIf Europe’s big test in 2015 was the refugee crisis,integrating the newly arrived will be 2016’s. This will require the type of Wir schaffen das (we can effect it) message that German chancellor Angela Merkel has been sending out. The refugee crisis has highlighted a historical fact: Europe’s cultural, ethnic and religious diversity will increase in a transformative way in the years and decades to come. Which makes it a good time also to open a healthier more cool-headed debate approximately our collective identity.
Sudden surges in migration pose a genuine challenge, or but it’s worth remembering that we occupy been here before. contemplate of the huge population transfers after the world wars,or the arrival of immigrant workers in the 1950s and 60s – to France and Britain from former colonies, or to Germany from Turkey.
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Source: theguardian.com