'Service delivery, important as it is politically, is not the deep, entangled, relational story of New Scots integration' // Alison Phipps
It builds on the work of nearly 10 years of the Scottish Government, Cosla – the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities – and Scottish Refugee Council working in a unique partnership to ensure that the right to asylum,, health, culture and community, language, housing and employment are all respected from day one of arrival in Scotland.
As we gather ourselves again, I witness a sector of committed, professional workers in a multitude of organisations under great pressure and burning out under the constant onslaught of multiple attacks on those seeking asylum or granted refuge, from theFrom the Nationality and Borders Act last year to the egregious and illegal bill on migration making its way through the Lords last week, it is the hardest of times.
But I want to tell a different story. Because service delivery, important as it is politically, is not the deep, entangled, relational story of New Scots integration. The deep story is told in communities changed and changing and integrating into new wholes. The deep story is not of New Scots as “integrees” and Old Scots as “intergraters”. The deep story is both simpler and more complicated at one and the same time.
They were awkward “New Scots” in many ways, reluctant to give up on a time when they had been so active and fully of the life of community and church and children, as we were to see this fade.
Laughing lovingly at words she hadn’t understood, or weird food she had come to love. My father-in-law and daughter navigated bits and pieces of “service delivery” together, not least as our daughter was moving out from the family home as her grandparents were moving to be with us. It’s no accident that the most successful and enduring integration networks in Glasgow are all named after the immediate localities – Maryhill Integration Network; South West Integration Network; North Glasgow and in other iterations Cranhill; Pollock; Govan and Craigton. We see the same patterns in the new places of resettlement, too, in the Highlands, on Bute, down in the Borders.
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