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).

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.

• List of Illustrations and TablesContributor BiographiesAcknowledgements1. Introduction: Scotland’s New Immigrants, T.M. Devine and Angela McCarthy2. Invisible Migrants? English People in Modern Scotland, T.M. Devine3. ‘New’ Jews in Scotland since 1945, Nicholas J. Evans and Angela McCarthy4. The Migration and Settlement of Pakistanis and Indians, Stefano Bonino5. Immigration to Scotland from Overseas: The Experience of Nurses, Ima Jackson6. Polish Diaspora or Polish Migrant Communities? Polish Migrants in Scotland, 1945-2015, Emilia Piętka-Nykaza7. Education and the Social Mobility of Chinese Families in Scotland, Eona Bell8. African Migrants, Asylum Seekers and Refugees: Tales of Settling in Scotland, 2000-2015, Teresa Piacentini9. ‘Race’, Place and Territorial Stigmatisation: The Construction of Roma Migrants in and through Govanhill, Scotland, Ashli Mullen10. Migration, Engagement and Constitutional Preferences: Evidence from the 2014 Scottish Independence Referendum, Ailsa Henderson, Chris Carman, Rob Johns and James Mitchell11. Immigration to Scotland since 1945: The Global Context, Enda Delaney