The impacts of migrants and migration into Scotland

Aims to summarise and evaluate the recent literature on the impacts of migrants and migration into Scotland.


Footnotes

1. Undocumented migrants were included in the scope of the review. However, no material was identified that focused specifically on this type of migrant

2. http://www.nrscotland.gov.uk/statistics-and-data/statistics/statistics-by-theme/migration/methodology

3. http://www.gov.scot/About/Performance/scotPerforms/purposetargets/population

4. Accession countries are Poland, Latvia, Lithuania, Hungary, Slovakia, Romania, Czech Republic, Bulgaria, Malta, Estonia, Slovenia and Cyprus

5. https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/home-secretary-speech-on-an-immigration-system-that-works-in-the-national-interest

6. http://unstats.un.org/unsd/demographic/sconcerns/migration/migrmethods.htm

7. This is not a conventional application of the term: for the UN definition, the assumption is that 'country' is an internationally recognized independent state

8. http://www.nrscotland.gov.uk/statistics-and-data/statistics/statistics-by-theme/migration/methodology

9. http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201314/cmselect/cmpubadm/523/52303.htm

10. http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201314/cmselect/cmpubadm/1228/122804.htm

11. https://www.statisticsauthority.gov.uk/archive/reports---correspondence/correspondence/letter-from-sir-andrew-dilnot-to-bernard-jenkin-mp-uksa-response-hc-523-06122013.pdf

12. https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peopleinwork/employmentandemployeetypes/qmis/annualpopulationsurveyapsqmi

13. Many of the findings in the report relate to England and Wales only; however, these statistics appear to relate to the whole of the UK.

14. Comparing how labour market outcomes across a number of groups experiencing different degrees of net migration vary with changes in net migration in these groups, and controlling for other factors

15. Descriptors of these systems have changed over time. In this report, the term 'social security' is used. However, where studies refer to 'welfare' this has been adhered to in the text.

16. http://www.gov.scot/Resource/0047/00473312.pdf

17. Standard Industrial Classification 2007

18. The supply of public sector housing impacts on private sector, so the focus of this section of the chapter is broader than the others

19. http://www.gov.scot/Topics/Statistics/Browse/School-Education/dspupcensus; http://www.gov.scot/Topics/Statistics/Browse/School-Education/PubPupilCensus

20. https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/uk-visas-and-immigration

21. https://www.gov.uk/guidance/immigration-rules/immigration-rules-appendix-g-youth-mobility-scheme

22. https://www.gov.uk/eu-eea

23. http://england.shelter.org.uk/get_advice/eu_nationals/countries_of_the_european_union_eu_and_eea

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