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Scotland’s Devolved Institutions and Immigration: A Challengingly Welcoming Attitude

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The Politics of Ethnic Diversity in the British Isles

Part of the book series: Palgrave Politics of Identity and Citizenship Series ((CAL))

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In the 2001 census, 2 per cent of the people living in Scotland claimed a ‘non-white’ identity, mostly Pakistani, Indian and Chinese (Office of Chief Statistics 2004, p. 5). Fifty per cent of them lived in Scotland’s four largest cities (Glasgow, Edinburgh, Aberdeen and Dundee), though even in Glasgow they would not exceed 5 per cent of the population. This situation evolved during the 2000s on two grounds. On the one hand, asylum seekers were dispersed to Glasgow. Their numbers peaked at 10,000 before decreasing to 5,000 by the end of the decade. Over half of them came from Iran, Pakistan, Congo, Somalia, Iraq and Turkey. On the other hand, with the enlargement of the European Union (EU), Eastern Europeans (mainly from Poland) emigrated to Scotland. Seventy thousand workers were registered in 2008. They tended to favour rural areas. The majority of them were Catholics, like individuals from Irish backgrounds who had settled in Scotland over the previous century.

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Camp-Pietrain, E. (2014). Scotland’s Devolved Institutions and Immigration: A Challengingly Welcoming Attitude. In: Garbaye, R., Schnapper, P. (eds) The Politics of Ethnic Diversity in the British Isles. Palgrave Politics of Identity and Citizenship Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137351548_7

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