In what ways is Scotland’s ethnic diversity distinctive?

Simpson, Lynette; Smith, Andrew; Jivraj, Stephen

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“…Changes to the balance of European in- and out-migration and its diversity can be traced to several key moments between 1971 and 2011, including the UK joining the European Economic Community (EEC) in 1973, the transformation of the EEC into the European Union (EU) in the early 1990s, and EU enlargements in the 2000s, which saw a rapid increase in immigration to the UK, in particular from Poland and Romania (Dubuc 2012 ; Bijak et al 2016 ; Blinder 2018 ). In the meantime, student immigration increased steadily during the latter stages of our study period, particularly from India and China, alongside flows from a diversity of African countries (Smith and Simpson 2015 ; Bijak et al 2016 ). Most immigration to the UK has been for work, formal study and family reasons, with a comparatively small proportion migrating for asylum (ONS Digital 2015 ; Blinder 2018 ; Kone 2018 ).…”

Section: The (Recent) Origins Of British Ethnic Diversity and Its Geomentioning

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Population Grids for Analysing Long-Term Change in Ethnic Diversity and Segregation

Catney

Lloyd

2020

Spat Demogr

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Changes in the spatial patterns of ethnic diversity and residential segregation are often highly localized, but inconsistencies in geographical data units across different time points limit their exploration. In this paper, we argue that, while they are often over-looked, population grids provide an effective means for the study of long-term fine-scale changes. Gridded data represent population structures: there are gaps where there are no people, and they are not (unlike standard zones) based on population distributions at any one time point. This paper uses an innovative resource, PopChange, which provides spatially fine-grained (1 km by 1 km) gridded data on country of birth (1971–2011) and ethnic group (1991–2011). These data enable insight into micro-level change across a long time period. Exploring forty years of change over five time points, measures of residential ethnic diversity and segregation are employed here to create a comprehensive ‘atlas’ of ethnic neighbourhood change across the whole of Britain. Four key messages are offered: (1) as Britain’s ethnic diversity has grown, the spatial complexity of this diversity has also increased, with greater diversity in previously less diverse spaces; (2) ethnic residential segregation has steadily declined at this micro-scale; (3) as neighbourhoods have become more diverse, they have become more spatially integrated; (4) across the whole study period, the most dynamic period of change was between 2001 and 2011. While concentrating on Britain as a case study, the paper explores the potential offered by gridded data, and the methods proposed to analyse them, for future allied studies within and outside this study area.

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Section: The (Recent) Origins Of British Ethnic Diversity and Its Geomentioning

confidence: 84%

Population Grids for Analysing Long-Term Change in Ethnic Diversity and Segregation

Catney

Lloyd

2020

Spat Demogr

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“…Unsurprisingly, England occupies a special place in these stories and is routinely produced in essentialist terms as Scotland's "national Other" (Liinpää, 2018). Of course, these everyday stories are partly reflective of the fact that Scotland, and its geography, history and culture among others, are -as noted earlier -in many ways distinct within the UK , Hepburn and Rosie, 2014, Hunter and Meer, 2018, Smith and Simpson, 2015. Smith and Simpson (2015), for example, explore this distinctiveness in relation to migration and ethnic diversity.…”

Section: Everyday Nationalism Among the Long-settled And Migrant Popumentioning

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“…Of course, these everyday stories are partly reflective of the fact that Scotland, and its geography, history and culture among others, are -as noted earlier -in many ways distinct within the UK , Hepburn and Rosie, 2014, Hunter and Meer, 2018, Smith and Simpson, 2015. Smith and Simpson (2015), for example, explore this distinctiveness in relation to migration and ethnic diversity. Historically, Scotland was largely a country of emigration with significant numbers of Scots leaving for North America, Australia or New Zealand among others (Harper, 2003) and a diaspora of over 30 million as of early 21 st century (Sim, 2011).…”

Section: Everyday Nationalism Among the Long-settled And Migrant Popumentioning

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“…By looking at everyday myth-making about Scotland in the post-Brexit-vote era, in this article I have contributed to the body of work on nationalism in Scotland and its regional distinctiveness in the UK , Hepburn and Rosie, 2014, Meer, 2015, Smith and Simpson, 2015. Through focusing on Brexit, and by exploring perspectives of both the long-settled and migrant population, I have added a new layer to the growing scholarship on migration, Brexit and diverse UK communities (e.g.…”

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“…Against this backdrop, Scotland has been portrayed as an outlier because of its overall vote to Remain and, arguably, more favourable public attitudes towards immigration (Hepburn andRosie, 2014, McCollum et al, 2014). This portrayal needs to be understood against a wider and long-standing narrative of Scotland's distinctiveness in the UK related to its migration history and ethnic diversity on the one hand (Smith and Simpson, 2015), and a strong devolved government and independence movement on the other (Liinpää, 2018). This grand narrative of distinctiveness has been actively maintained by Scottish political elites over decades and has been used for different purposes (e.g.…”

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While Scotland has been portrayed as an outlier in the context of Brexit, we know relatively little about how ordinary people in Scotland, including a growing migrant population, make sense of this (political and media) narrative. In order to address this gap, in this article I look at everyday narratives of Scotland's distinctiveness in the post-Brexit-vote era among the long-settled population and Polish – and to a lesser degree other European Union – migrants in the East End of Glasgow. By drawing upon scholarship on everyday nationalism and imagined communities, I explore discursive claims which romanticise Scotland as different and ‘welcoming’ of immigration and position it in binary opposition to England. How is Scotland produced as different in the context of Brexit? How are these stories used to re-imagine increasingly diverse Scottish society? In what ways are they being employed by migrant communities?

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In what ways is Scotland’s ethnic diversity distinctive?

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Population Grids for Analysing Long-Term Change in Ethnic Diversity and Segregation

Population Grids for Analysing Long-Term Change in Ethnic Diversity and Segregation

‘Scotland's different’: Narratives of Scotland's distinctiveness in the post-Brexit-vote era

Changes in mixed ethnicity households and neighbourhood transitions in England and Wales

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