The article discusses a research survey carried out in an inner-city area of Glasgow. The survey had a qualitative focus, with an attempt to establish ethnic minority needs in the fields of childcare services, care of the elderly, and advice and information. A low level of expectation and awareness of services was uncovered. This was found to reflect both the generally inadequate level of existing provision, and a lack of success on the part of service providers in communicating what actually is available. All these factors contribute to clear patterns of low utilisation from among ethnic communities.
The British Government has recently agreed to accept a further 1,000 Vietnamese refugees from camps in Hong Kong. The refugees will be admitted to Britain over the next two to three years and will join the 20,000 Vietnamese already here.&dquo;' This action, under international pressure, is to be welcomed, given the plight of those who have been in closed camps for many years. It ought also to prompt a re-assessment of this country's previous commitment to accepting refugees and its strategies for assisting them to rebuild their lives. Such a re-examination, while overdue, is also extremely unlikely.Indeed, the basic failure of previous refugee settlement was brought home to both statutory and voluntary agencies in a dramatic way when attempts were made to locate refugee communities in Scotland's largest region, Strathclyde. Of the 83 Vietnamese families settled in 1979, only 16 remained in 1988. Out of almost 200 Chilean families settled since 1974, less than 30 could be found. In the absence of adequate services and support, and in some cases facing constant racial harassment, refugees had simply migrated to London and the South. Moving elsewhere had not improved their quality of life, and often the problem of isolation in a hostile white society had been solved at the expense of creating others, such as homelessness.In order to prevent further drift and to ensure that future policies for refugees actually meet their needs, the Glasgow Council for Voluntary Services commissioned the Scottish Ethnic Minorities Research Unit to examine these needs as expressed by the refugees themselves. (2) Detailed interviews were subsequently carried out with 65 remaining households, including refugees from Vietnam, Chile, Iran, Iraq and Afghanistan.The research particularly identified two major aspects of government refugee policy which have contributed to difficulties experienced in settling in Britain. The first is the Home Office's increasingly hostile and punitive attitude towards asylum-seeking, itself best viewed against a growing at The University of Iowa Libraries on June 25, 2015 csp.sagepub.com Downloaded from
This article interprets the Church of Scotland's post-war industrial mission project as a deliberate attempt to relate constructively with the changing social world. The analysis places this case study in the wider context of industrial mission experiments in France, England and Germany. Although the scheme was less radical than its European counterparts, this article suggests that it was more widely represented in Scottish workplaces and better integrated into the structures of the mainstream church. This comparison not only points to the relative institutional vitality of the national church, but also to the enduring strength of a broader 'discursive Christianity' in Scotland.O Christ, the Carpenter of life Shop-steward of my faithless heart Stand with us in this wicked strife And tear our cruel greed apart. 1
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