For every city, migrant integration comes with its challenges, but any city that might consider these hurdles insurmountable should look to the walled Cypriot capital of Nicosia.

For more than half a century, the battered church of St. John, where congregations of pigeons had replaced the pious, stood as a symbol of the ravages Gdansk suffered during the second world war. Now, thanks to Larry ‘Okey’ Ugwu, there is music – from Chopin to brass bands – flooding through its halls again.

In a time when immigration is on the rise in cities, good ideas need to start migrating too. That’s why representatives from Rotterdam took a trip to Tampere last week, to help the city draft a new action plan for smoothing the transition for immigrants into the local labour force.