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Europe’s newest museum is the spectacular Fenix in Rotterdam, an art museum about migration. Less than a month after it opened in May, the ruling right-wing Dutch coalition government collapsed over the issue of immigration. New elections are scheduled for October 29. So, while the Netherlands now hosts a superb new cultural institution that sympathetically tells the many stories of migrants, it doesn’t have a government. Dutch society is wracked by differences over immigration.

Recent protests about immigration – from Sydney to Paris and London – suggest it is not alone.

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