Poll for folks who are non-British immigrants to #Scotland.

Do you know what a "foam banana" is?

(please boost for coverage)

#NewScots

#NewScots learnin #Glaswegian #Scots here, mei try tootin in it mair

@GetCarter look out from Nima Khorshidi who will be coming your way soon on his amazing cycle, walking , kayaking trip on his individually designed route (in pink) .He’s raising money for women on wheels https://womenonwheels.raisely.com/nima-khorshidi #newscots are making a difference - hope he gets the weather in your picture - stunning

An emotional and gracious New Year Resolution from @sabir_zazai@twitter.com (featuring an @alison_phipps@twitter.com cameo appearance 😉). Very moving - well done @davidgstrachan@twitter.com 🤝 “a warm smile and a welcome, that does not cost much” 🧡 #NewScots
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001gsfs

@katiemac

#LetHerLearn

I had the privilege of teaching Afghan women at Asian University for Women #AUW, as part of a global effort to anticipate, evade, and resist the horrors of the Taliban.

The Taliban is scared of those women, as well they should be. I am glad that the #NewScots strategy is another part of that effort. Without women's education we cannot address the planetary crisis.

In order to pass this test, you will have to assume multiple identities, fool armed guards, survive a brutal, unpredictable network of internment camps, become an expert in managing hostile bureaucracy in several foreign languages, and pass live survival tests involving freezing weather, barbed wire, days without food and crossing 40km of freezing water. At the advanced level, you will do this while pregnant and protecting a small child, with the added requirement of surviving sexual assaults.

Congratulations. You are an "unskilled migrant" and a "illegal" asylum seeker.

#migration #NewScots #noIllegalAsylumSeekers

Our thanks to all #NewScots who have sustained and supported our research and thinking and to each of the members of this unique partnership with Local Authorities through COSLA, Scottish Government Scottish Refugee Council & #universityofglasgow and to our hosts at #ScotlandHouse #Europe for their warm welcome and the perfect venue for launching this international report
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We launched the #NewScots report yesterday in Brussels and you can download it and ponder its 70 recommendations for a kinder, more realistically welcoming and interculturally dynamic Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 here

https://www.gla.ac.uk/media/Media_900243_smxx.pdf 3/

We launched the #NewScots report yesterday in Brussels and you can download it and ponder its 70 recommendations for a kinder, more realistically welcoming and interculturally dynamic Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 here

https://www.gla.ac.uk/media/Media_900243_smxx.pdf 3/

It was co-authored by Dr Dan Fisher Dr Esa Aldegheri and myself as part of the #NewScots #Refugee #Integration Strategy development and will inform the refreshed strategy #NewScots3 as it is developed in partnership with #ScottishGovernment #COSLA #ScottishRefugeeCouncil and ourselves as independent academics. 2/

Our #UNESCO RILA / #universityofglasgow research report is out on #NewScots.

It re-frames #integration ethically, interculturally, as restorative and conflict transformational with communities, place and relationships strengthened through community development at its core.

It takes the burden of change from those seeking refugee and holds it in common for all.

It offers international supports and systematic review #Scotland #refugeeswelcome

https://gla.ac.uk/media/Media_900243_smxx.pdf

Reminded by a post from someone who's decided to move to Scotland.

I'm a #Yorkshire Scot. Grew up in #Leeds. Started uni in Aberdeen, age 18, in 1974. Been here ever since. Close on 50 years.

The only fok who've told me I'm not Scottish have been #Unionists (and only a handful of times) and Scottish #poets.

Hate the phrase '#NewScots', byraway. Maks ye feel ye dinna really belong. 'Haud it, ye've no been here lang enough te hae an opinion'. Gonnae no.

Food for the soul, inspiration for the mind and bosies for the body at @scotrefcouncil@twitter.com #NewScots Conference 2022 ♥️ @UofGUnescoRILA@twitter.com @migrationscot@twitter.com @Aberdeenshire@twitter.com

In full swing - a strong feeling of joy as resistance - #NewScots, old Scots, big Scots, wee Scots blethering away - and celebrating the extraordinary work they have accomplished. And not least because Musicians In Exile just brought the house down.

RT @scotrefcouncil@twitter.com

The #NewScots Conference is in full swing with a rousing performance from "Britain's most unorthodox band" - the fantastic Musicians in Exile! @GlasgowBarons@twitter.com

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/scotrefcouncil/status/1591042066486001664

All set at Glasgow Concert Hall for Scottish Refugee Council Conference of with and for #NewScots #RefugeesWelcome

Now to settle the nerves 😊

New funding - designed and managed by #refugees announced by Scottish Refugee Council.

These guys - honestly - the miracles they make happen … respect.

#ScotPol #RefugeesWelcome #NewScots

https://www.scottishrefugeecouncil.org.uk/working-for-change/reaching_new_scots/

@davidallengreen Thanks Dave - I’m an academic and #unesco chair working with lawyers on #refugee and #immigration advocacy matters as well as #cultural rights #HumanRights #LanguageRights & #NewScots - not a lawyer but co-supervising law PhDs & huge admirer of folk like @AlasdairMackenzie

At the recent NATECLA Scotland conference, a familiar theme was coming through in discussions of barriers to integration & employment for #NewScots. #ESOL is not enough. When ppl step out of ESOL bubbles to access services, employment or the wider community, it often doesn’t matter how good their English is or how skilled they are, the barriers remain because they are often the only ones who have learned & adapted. We need to shift the focus http://journal.nystesol.org/Vol8No2/05_GoodeyFinal.pdf

Update from Minister Neil Gray MSP on support long term for mass evacuation and integration of those needing humanitarian assistance in #Scotland #NewScots #ScotPol #ScotG ovt

https://www.gov.scot/news/investing-in-long-term-support-for-displaced-people-from-ukraine/