This is the first wide-ranging, cross-disciplinary overview of immigration to Scotland in recent history and its impact on both the newcomers and the host society. It examines key themes relating to postwar migration by showcasing the experiences of many of Scotland’s most striking immigrant communities of people arriving from England, Poland, India, Pakistan, China, the Caribbean and the African continent. New Scots also features analysis of asylum seekers and refugees, along with Jewish and Roma migrants, and includes a chapter on migrant voting patterns during the Independence Referendum of 2014. Framed in chronological, thematic and international contexts, New Scots offers its readers a penetrating understanding of immigration, one of the most crucial issues confronting the United Kingdom today.

Multi-layered and empirically well-informed...this accessible collection deserves to be read by all concerned with the changing make-up of Scottish society, from Holyrood to local councils and voluntary organisations. * Process North *
New Scots is an important work for those interested in the recent history of migrants in Scotland. The contributions gathered together in this work offer a fresh perspective on Scottish society’s relationship with its minorities in an age of immigration. As Brexit draws ever closer this work is needed more than ever. -- Kieran D. Taylor, University of Stirling * The Innes Review *
This book tells the story of Scotland’s transformation, how we changed from being a nation of emigrants to one of immigrants. Having to come to terms with the ‘other’, teaches us what it means to be Scottish today, for the boundaries between ‘them’ and ‘us’ constantly changes. It is a remarkable story. -- David McCrone, The University of Edinburgh

T. M. Devine is Sir William Fraser Professor Emeritus of Scottish History and Palaeography at the University of Edinburgh. Author and editor of many books on Scottish history and related subjects, he is a Fellow of the British Academy, the Royal Society of Edinburgh and an Honorary Member of the Royal Irish Academy. In 2014 he was knighted for services to the study of Scottish history and he is the only historian to have been awarded the Royal Gold Medal, Scotland's supreme academic accolade, by the HM The Queen on the recommendation of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Angela McCarthy is Professor of Scottish and Irish History at the University of Otago, New Zealand. She is the editor of A Global Clan (2006) and author of Personal Narratives of Irish and Scottish Migration, 1921-65 (2007) and Scottishness and Irishness in New Zealand since 1840 (2011).