Society and health of migrants

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In London, in May 2016, a photograph was tweeted with the caption: “This is what a civilised society looks like”. The photo showed the inauguration of the newly elected London mayor—hardly remarkable in itself. But the specialness of the scene grows by degrees. The mayor, Sadiq Khan, himself a civil rights lawyer, is the son of a Pakistani immigrant bus driver. It is notable that a Muslim be elected to lead a major European city. The inauguration took place in Southwark cathedral, a central place of prayer for Anglicans. Ranged behind the mayor in the photo were leaders of Catholic, Protestant, Jewish, Muslim and, I think, Hindu faiths. Also visible was Doreen Lawrence, a civil rights campaigner, whose son, a black teenager, had been murdered by white thugs. …