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"Australia is watching keenly as Europe's great multicultural experiment seems to be unravelling.
They came in their hundreds of thousands, young men from Morocco, Algeria, Turkey and Pakistan, and they took jobs in the mills and factories of Hamburg, Rotterdam, Lille and Leeds. It was the boom of the 1950s and 1960s, Europe was getting rich, and the men did the jobs Europeans didn't want to do any more. Among them was Mohammed Shaffi.
After hauling rocks to build roads in Pakistan, working in a mill in Bradford, West Yorkshire, was an opportunity. Shaffi prayed in the local mosque, made an arranged marriage with a cousin from Pakistan, and raised six children in a largely segregated Pakistani neighbourhood. His wife, Alam Bibi, never learnt English, and five of the children also made arranged marriages with distant cousins from Pakistan. But not the fifth child, Wahida."
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