Before 1939 continental Europeans were settling in Scotland, in a polity shaped by distinct religious and legal traditions. In the same period, ‘Scottish’ state institutions were gaining significant powers over welfare, public health and local government. This article, as the foundation for a wider study on migrants in Scotland, uses state records to examine this machinery’s attempts to engage with foreignness. It concludes that although officials largely engaged on the basis of increasingly restrictive alien United Kingdom legislation from 1905, this was also a period in which migrants could benefit from the official Scottishness of both ministers and mandarins.

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苏格兰人与“外国人”：1939 年之前发展中的苏格兰“政府机构”的作用

1939 年之前，欧洲大陆人在苏格兰定居，其政体由不同的宗教和法律传统塑造。在同一时期，“苏格兰”国家机构在福利、公共卫生和地方政府方面获得了重要的权力。本文作为对苏格兰移民进行更广泛研究的基础，使用州记录来检查该机构试图与外国人打交道。它的结论是，尽管官员们主要根据 1905 年以来日益严格的英国外来立法进行参与，但这也是移民可以从部长和官员的官方苏格兰身份中受益的时期。