Rotterdam's Migration Museum Opens Amid Split on Immigrant Sentiment
The museum is particularly provocative at a time when the Netherlands is experiencing rising anti-immigrant sentiment, with the government pledging last year to implement the 'strictest asylum policy ever,' Charlotte Hughes-Morgan reports. Today on CityLab: A Migration Museum Opens in a Hotbed of Anti-Immigrant Sentiment
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