Anton Muscatelli is the Principal of the University of Glasgow and one of the United Kingdom's top economists.[1]
Total population
No exact numbers but estimates range from 35,000 to 100,000
Regions with significant populations
Throughout Scotland specifically Glasgow ·
Languages
Scots
British English
Italian and Italian dialects
Religion
Christian: Mostly Roman Catholic
Related ethnic groups
Italians, Italians in the United Kingdom, Welsh Italians, Scots, Genoese in Gibraltar, Italian Americans, Italian Australians, Italian Canadians, Italian New Zealanders, Italian South Africans
Italian Scots (Italian: italo-scozzesi) are Scots who are fully or partially of Italian descent, whose ancestors were Italians who emigrated to Scotland during the Italian diaspora, or Italian-born people in Scotland. This term can also refer to people of mixed Scottish and Italian ancestry. A recent Italian voter census estimated that there are 70,000 to 100,000 people in Scotland of Italian descent or Italian nationals, which is up to 1.9% of the overall Scottish population.
Latest available figures from the 2011 UK Census show there were 6,048 people born in Italy living in Scotland. This was up from 4,936 in 2001 and 3,947 recorded in 1991.[2] In 2016, Ronnie Convery, secretary of the Italian Scotland charitable organisation and director of communications at the Archdiocese of Glasgow, asserted that a completely new dimension was being added to the Scots-Italians community. He said, “There has been a brand new migration over the past two years, and the biggest one we have seen in 100 years."[2]
Migration to Scotland from Italy has been predominantly from the provinces of Lucca and Frosinone.[3] Additional provinces with fairly significant emigration to Scotland include Isernia, La Spezia, Pistoia, Parma, Latina, Massa-Carrara and Pordenone. The Scottish Italian community settled mostly in the Glasgow area, most of whom are of Tuscan origin. The smaller Italian community in and around Edinburgh is predominantly of Lazian origin.[4]
^Ranked in the top 5% of economists in the world as per ranking analysis at RePEc/IDEAS - see https://ideas.repec.org/e/pmu60.html#stats
^ ab"What impact have Scots-Italians had on Scotland?". www.scotsman.com. Retrieved 2017-11-09.
^Scotland is immigrant choice for a new Italian connection Gerry Braiden, The Herald (4 January 2014)
^Interactive map of Italians in Scotland in the 1930s barganews.com (16 December 2015)
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