An immigrant's tale: Leaving Britain to escape Brexit hostility

Maria, 31, holds her baby daughter Ioana, who is less than a week old, at their home in London, Britain, February 3, 2019. REUTERS/Alecsandra Dragoi

LONDON (Reuters) - A few months after Britain voted to leave the European Union, Maria was waiting to see a doctor at a London hospital when an elderly English woman told her to go back to her native Romania.

"You are a foreigner," Maria, who was heavily pregnant at the time, recalls the woman saying. "Your place is not here."