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.
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