This project is a collaboration between COSLA Strategic Migration Partnership (www.migrationscotland.org.uk), GRAMNet (www.gla.ac.uk/gramnet) and the Centre for Russian, Central and East European Studies (www.gla.ac.uk/crcees).

The project is led by Rebecca Kay (Rebecca.Kay@glasgow.ac.uk), in collaboration with Andrew Morrison (Andrew@cosla.gov.uk) and Mhoraig Green (Mhoraig@cosla.gov.uk). The project has also been supported through the work of Taina Tihinen, GRAMNet Intern, with kind support from Oulu University, Finland.

This project aims to contribute to and re-think the evidence base for current policy debates and public rhetoric in relation to migration in the UK and Scotland.  Whilst such debates reflect strongly held views regarding the costs or benefits of migration, the evidence base for such views is often relatively weak and dominated by economic/demographic statistics, even where these are not very reliable.  The versatility and scope of social research does not always translate well into policy-making and public discourse. Localised social and cultural impacts whilst harder to quantify can usefully be more fully explored and new ways found of evidencing what is often dismissed as ‘anecdotal’.

http://www.gla.ac.uk/research/az/gramnet/getinvolvedactiveprojects/analysisofsocialandculturalcostsandbenefitsofceemigrationtoscotland/

First published: 9 November 2012

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