The mass, inward, multinational migration experienced in the UK today is not a novel phenomenon.
Four hundred years ago, the Reformation caused large-scale, trans-European migration. The Calvinist Dutch Republic became an ark for refugees from all over the continent.
The result was that, by the close of the 17th century, a significant percentage of the population of the Dutch Republic was not Dutch.
How do we preserve our identity if we're in exile?
In my last article of this series (which you can read here), I considered how migration and exile are …