Communities United Advice centre,Govan,2008:"Raising Awareness of the Opportunities and meeting needs and demands of the Ethnic Minority Community". Wikicommons/Richard Webb. Some rights reserved.With the rise of Brexit, Scottish politicians and proponents of independence are at pains to emphasise the absence of an anti-immigrant block in Scotland as a driving force of politics.
This week the First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon met with EU nationals to reassure them that they are welcome in Scotland and valued as a community. But in the obvious gap this and the concern for post-referendum racism has created, leaves us wondering about the position of Arab, black and south Asian ethnic minority groups.
In recent years, while the gender balance in Scottish politics has steadily improved, ethnic diversity remains low on the agenda and it has always been a question between whether what is unseen goes unheard or constitutes a deep institutional malaise.
