The Politics of Immigration in Scotland

Examines immigration as a central strategy of Scottish nation building Presents Scotland as a key test case for the marriage of nationalist sentiments and cosmopolitan identitiesAddresses ongoing public debates about minority integration and multiculturalism in Western democracies and the potential power of local or national political elites to steer rhetoricEngages with primary and secondary sources of data (ex. survey data, newspaper coverage) and employs varied methodological tools to achieve