Will a Brexit leave millions of migrants behind?
By Toby Melville
Alfio Emanuele Fresta, a 21-year-old student at England’s
University of York, came to the U.K. from Sicily in 2013, hoping to build a
life in a country he thought of as welcoming, diverse and filled with
opportunities in his chosen discipline: computer science. “I wasn’t aware of a
referendum. I wasn’t aware of the possibility of a referendum,” he says. “From
what I knew at the time, EU nationals were treated equally everywhere in the
EU, equally to British citizens in Britain. I quickly found out that this isn’t
always the case.”