There's no doubting that immigration transforms neighborhoods and towns, and that this year's wave of hundreds of thousands of people fleeing war and poverty in their homelands will have the same effect. Hungary's hard-line Prime Minister Viktor Orban, who built a razor-wire fence along the border with Serbia to stem the flow of migrants, argues that he wants to protect Europe's traditionally Christian culture from becoming "a minority interest in its own continent." Rinkeby has had problems with crime for decades and, in recent years, with radical Islamic groups recruiting jihadi fighters. Nando Sigona, a senior lecturer at the School of Social Policy at the University of Birmingham in England, agreed with the overall picture presented by Mueller, although he said the high number of arrivals will have an impact on welfare systems, "especially at a time of severe cuts and restructurings." Despite such historical challenges, German Chancellor Angela Merkel believes her country is up to the task of absorbing the new wave of immigrants. "Because what we're experiencing now, that's something which will continue to occupy our country in the coming years, changing it," Merkel said recently.