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Attitudes to Immigration in Scotland 2026: Growing polarisation, hardening views
Read moreThe fourth wave of our annual representative survey of public attitudes to immigration in Scotland finds views becoming more restrictive, a hardening on both sides of the debate, and social contact emerging as a key dividing factor.
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Mainstreaming Solutions: New approaches for effective interventions to tackle poverty in migrant households
Read moreMigration Policy Scotland’s project Tackling Financial Disadvantage in Migrant Households adds to clear and growing evidence that inequalities linked to experiences of migration and deriving from the immigration system impact significantly on poverty in…
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Financial disadvantage in migrant households: Report
Read moreThe analysis shows that financial disadvantage in migrant households is not only the result of individual circumstances. It is also shaped by the interaction between the immigration system, labour market conditions and the design of anti-poverty measures.…
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Policy Briefing: Including Migrants in Policy and Practice to Reduce Poverty
Read moreMigration Policy Scotland’s research shows that migrants are disadvantaged in relation to each of the main pathways to poverty reduction recognised by Scottish Government and Scotland’s wider anti-poverty movement: reducing costs; increasing incomes…
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Tackling Child Poverty in Migrant Families: Engaging Migrant Perspectives in a consultation for the Tackling Child Poverty Delivery Plan 2026-2031
Read moreThis report on child poverty in migrant families was commissioned by the Scottish Government. Migration Policy Scotland was asked to bring migrant perspectives into the evidence gathering and engagement for the Tackling Child Poverty Delivery Plan 2026–2031.
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Attitudes to Immigration in Scotland 2026: Growing polarisation, hardening views
The fourth wave of our annual representative survey of public attitudes to immigration in Scotland finds views becoming more restrictive, a hardening on both sides of the debate, and social contact emerging as a key dividing factor.
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Attitudes to Immigration in Scotland 2025: Changing, complex, contradictory
The third wave of our annual representative survey of public attitudes to immigration in Scotland. Views are cooling, but they remain complex and often contradictory – especially once the questions get specific.
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Mainstreaming Solutions: New approaches for effective interventions to tackle poverty in migrant households
Migration Policy Scotland’s project Tackling Financial Disadvantage in Migrant Households adds to clear and growing evidence that inequalities linked to experiences of migration and deriving from the immigration system impact significantly on poverty in…
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Tackling Child Poverty in Migrant Families: Engaging Migrant Perspectives in a consultation for the Tackling Child Poverty Delivery Plan 2026-2031
This report on child poverty in migrant families was commissioned by the Scottish Government. Migration Policy Scotland was asked to bring migrant perspectives into the evidence gathering and engagement for the Tackling Child Poverty Delivery Plan 2026–2031.
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Perspectives: Doing a Collaborative Dissertation with MPS on Underemployment Among HK BN(O)s
Blog by Patrick To, MSc Sociology and Global Change (University of Edinburgh)
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Financial disadvantage in migrant households: Report
The analysis shows that financial disadvantage in migrant households is not only the result of individual circumstances. It is also shaped by the interaction between the immigration system, labour market conditions and the design of anti-poverty measures.…
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Policy Briefing: Including Migrants in Policy and Practice to Reduce Poverty
Migration Policy Scotland’s research shows that migrants are disadvantaged in relation to each of the main pathways to poverty reduction recognised by Scottish Government and Scotland’s wider anti-poverty movement: reducing costs; increasing incomes…
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The Times: ‘Immigration is Vital if Scotland is to Flourish’
Comment piece originally published in The Times, Monday 13 May 2024
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The Times: ‘Welcome Shift in Scottish Attitudes to Immigration’
Comment piece originally published in The Times, Thursday 14 September 2023
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Attitudes to Immigration in Scotland: Cautious pragmatism?
The second Migration Policy Scotland Attitudes Survey updates understanding of what the Scottish public thinks about immigration, developing an evidence base that helps policymakers and others make better informed choices in a complex and changing context.
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MPS Programme 2023-26
Our second 3-year programme outlines our vision, approach and priorities for 2023-26.
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Tackling rural depopulation
Multi-level policy responses to rural depopulation are increasingly central to debates on population change, ageing, and regional inequality. Rural depopulation affects many countries across Europe and beyond, raising concerns about economic…
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Multi-Level Responses to Rural Depopulation
Rural depopulation is a significant contemporary challenge facing many countries across Europe and the Global North, and Scotland is no exception. Long-term population decline in rural and remote areas raises concerns about economic sustainability, access…
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Media Coverage of the MPS Attitudes Survey
To improve the evidence base on public opinion MPS commissions a representative survey on Scottish views of immigration. This provides insight infrastructure that supports work on migration across a wide range of…
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Attitudes to Immigration: A view from Scotland
Migration Policy Scotland research finds Scottish attitudes to immigration have warmed considerably. This is the first representative survey of attitudes to immigration since 2014. The report details the findings of an online survey carried out through…
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BBC Scotland: Radio Interview, 1 September 2022
MPS Senior Researcher Rebecca Kay discusses migration’s role in facing Scotland’s predicted population challenges.