Tour: Refugee Histories of Glasgow

SCOTLAND AND POLAND

• Shelter & Community: Polish Post-War Resettlement Camps in the United Kingdom by Juliette Bretan
• Polish exchange students in Scotland in the 1970s built a giant topographical map of the country, The Great Polish Map of Scotland, near Eddleston in the Borders. The map was the brainchild of Jan Tomasik, a Sergeant who had been stationed at Galashiels during WWII and who ended up marrying a Scottish nurse.
• The hidden history of the UK’s post war Polish refugees
• The Polish Resettlement Corp in Scotland

ASYLUM DISPERSAL

• A View From Here film (2014). The Red Road Flats became an icon of asylum seeker housing in Glasgow – life in these blocks was documented by the community and filmmaker Basharat Khan in a multidisciplinary arts and heritage project prior to the demolition of many of these flats.

ANTI APARTHEID MOVEMENT

• Scotland’s Sounds project, brief clips from interviews with Isabella Porte 1994-96 (halfway down the page)
• Glasgow Women’s Library, Nelson Mandela – Apartheid, Women and Glasgow
• Nelson Mandela Scottish Memorial Foundation
• History of the British Anti-Apartheid movement, extensive online archive of interviews, campaign materials, writing, pamphlets

JEWISH REFUGEES IN GLASGOW

• Garnethill Refugee Trail by the Scottish Jewish Heritage Centre and the Scottish Jewish Archives Centre
• ‘A fabric of distant life’: Jewish artists in Scotland by Ben Reiss

LA PASIONARIA & INTERNATIONAL SOLIDARITY           

• Ethel MacDonald Collection @ The Mitchell Library, personal papers and Spanish Civil War archive materials
• Article on Helen Biggar’s documentary film ‘Challenge to Fascism: Glasgow’s May Day (1938)’ by Jenny Brownrigg and Shona Main
• La Pasionaria – Mitchell Library/Michael Gallagher

CHILEANS IN SCOTLAND

• Carlos Arredondo, Chilean exiliopedia in Scotland
•  ‘The Scotland vs. Chile friendly labelled “The Match of Shame”’, The Scotsman 2018 
• Nae Pasaran film (2018)

BLOCKADE RUNNERS AND THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR

• Concert in support of Basque refugees, featuring Paul Robeson
• Fleeing Franco: Spain’s Civil War Refugees by Nick Mead
• Child refugees from the Spanish Civil War: a scrapbook tells a story – Marx Memorial Library
• Basque Child Refugee Archives, University of Southampton
• 549: Scots of the Spanish Civil War
• Island Brigaders: Arran, Millport and the fight against Fascism in 1930s Spain by Liam Turbett

1919 RACE RIOT, JAMES WATT ST

• Jacqueline Jenkinson – Friendly Aliens on the Home Front: Migrants, Refugees and Colonial Workers in Scotland During and After the First World War (Scottish Archives Vol. 22, 2016)
• Jacqueline Jenkinson – 1919 Race Riots in Britain: their background and consequences (PhD thesis)
• ‘New’ Scots? (Re)Writing Somali Histories in Scotland by Mohamed Omar and Emma Hill

BELGIAN REFUGEES IN GLASGOW

• Belgian Refugees in Glasgow: Local Faith Communities, Hosting and the Great War by Kieran Taylor
• Refugee Voices Scotland – The Hidden story of Belgian refugees living in Glasgow during the Great War 
• Belgian refugee culture in Glasgow, Stirling Centre for Scottish Studies  
• Belgian refugee records can be accessed via Family History at the Mitchell Library

MIGRATION & REFUGEE WORK TODAY

• Glasgow Girls campaign, an educational resource for teachers
• Scottish Refugee Council
• Maryhill Integration Network
• Govan Community Project
• Ubuntu Glasgow
• Unity Sisters
• Milk Cafe Glasgow
• Soul Food Sisters
• For more details on many more organisations working to support asylum seekers and refugees in Glasgow visit this resource compiled by Refugee Survival Trust

OTHER LINKS & RESOURCES

• Refugee history Scotland, recording of talk for Refugee Festival Scotland, 2021
• New Scots: Scotland’s Immigrant Communities since 1945. Ed. Tom Devine and Angela McCarthy, 2018 Edinburgh University Press.   
• Hostile Environment: How Immigrants Became Scapegoats by Maya Goodfellow. 2019 Verso Books. Highly recommended if you’re interested in the history of immigration policy in the UK from the 1960s onwards   
• Refugee History
• Our Migration History   
• Scottish Refugee Council’s arts and culture work  
• Glasgow Refugee Asylum and Migration Network
• Escape to Freedom, documentary (1981) by Lanark Cine Club on Vietnamese refugees in Scotland
• Welcome to Britain, BBC documentary (1973) about the Ugandan Asian Panchal family’s experiences of arrival and life in Loanhead