Britain | Patterns of immigration

In Britain, immigrants are moving beyond the big cities

This is a problem for a government that flirts with nativism

J60RC5 Pasikonik Eastern European supermarket particularly catering for the immigrant community in Hull and East Yorkshire.

The british government is having a nativist moment. Suella Braverman, the home secretary, talks of the “invasion of our southern coast” by asylum-seekers in small boats. Last month she fretted about the number of foreign students. Such talk is inflammatory and, in the case of asylum-seekers, immoral. It could also prove politically unwise.

This article appeared in the Britain section of the print edition under the headline “Diversity spreads out”

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