Scottish Asians

Scottish Asian (Asian-Scottish or Asian-Scots) is a term defined within the 2011 Scottish census as including people of Bangladeshi, Chinese, Indian, Pakistani or other Asian ancestry resident in Scotland.^[2] Their parents or grandparents are normally Asian immigrants. It can also refer to people who are of dual Scottish and Asian ancestry. It combines Asian ethnic background with Scottish national identity.

In traditional British usage, the term Asian did not normally include East Asians, who were referred by their respective national origins (e.g. Chinese, Japanese and others) or collectively as "Oriental", which similar to Scotch can be viewed of as pejorative when applied to people.^[3] By contrast, in traditional North American usage the term Asian did not normally include South Asians but focused on East and Southeast Asians, particularly Chinese, Japanese and Vietnamese. These frames of reference reflect different migration patterns.

The 1991, 2001, 2011 and 2022 censuses recorded the following ethnic groups:

In addition to ethnicity, the 2011 census asked about national identity.^[7]

• 34 per cent of all minority ethnic groups felt they had some Scottish identity either on its own or in combination with another identity. This ranged from 60 per cent for people from a mixed background and 50 per cent for those from a Pakistani ethnic group, to 21 per cent for those from an African ethnic group. This compared to 83 per cent for all people in Scotland.^[7]
• 62 per cent of the total population stated ‘Scottish identity only’ as their national identity, of which 98 per cent stated their ethnicity as ‘White: Scottish’.^[7]
• 18 per cent of the total population stated ‘Scottish and British identity only’ as their national identity, of which 97 per cent stated their ethnicity as ‘White: Scottish’.^[7]
• 8 per cent of the total population stated their national identity as ‘British identity only’. Of these, 49 per cent stated their ethnicity as ‘White: Scottish’, 38 per cent were ‘White: Other British’, and 8 per cent were ‘Asian’.^[7]
• 4 per cent of the total population stated their national identity as ‘Other identity only’ (i.e. no UK identity), 32 per cent of those were ‘White: Other White’, 22 per cent were ‘Asian’ and 21 per cent were ‘White: Polish’.^[7]

La población de origen asiático del sur de Escocia, que supera las 80 000 personas, proviene principalmente de la India y Pakistán . La mayoría profesa las religiones hindú , sij e islámica , y se concentra en áreas urbanas como el Gran Glasgow , Edimburgo y Dundee . Sin embargo, existen comunidades asiáticas en lugares tan pequeños como Stornoway y tan al norte como Aberdeen . ^{[ 8 ]}

• Dundee - 4.000 asiáticos (especialmente en Hilltown y Stobswell )
• Edimburgo - 26.264 asiáticos
• Glasgow (y el área metropolitana circundante de Glasgow): 65.000 asiáticos (especialmente en Pollokshields , Pollokshaws , Govanhill , Newton Mearns , Bearsden , East Kilbride y Woodlands ).

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• Shehzad Afzal , escritor, director, productor y diseñador de juegos.
• Danny Bhoy , comediante
• Shabana Bakhsh , actriz
• Serena Dalrymple
• Hassan Ghani , periodista y locutor
• Mahtab Hussain , fotógrafo
• Sara Ishaq , cineasta
• Sanjeev Kohli , actor y presentador de televisión.
• Hardeep Singh Kohli , presentador de medios caído en desgracia
• Katie Leung , actriz
• MC-VA , rapero
• Aasmah Mir , presentadora de televisión y radio.
• Shereen Nanjiani , presentadora de televisión y radio.
• Suhayl Saadi , escritor
• Kiran Sonia Sawar , actriz
• Marli Siu , actriz
• KT Tunstall , músico
• Atta Yaqub , actor y modelo.

• Poonam Gupta , empresaria
• Angela Malik , chef y empresaria
• Tony Singh , chef y empresario.

• Bashir Ahmad - primer miembro del Parlamento escocés elegido de origen asiático. Miembro del SNP ^{[ 9 ]}
• Mushtaq Ahmad - Lord Provost de South Lanarkshire
• Irshad Ahmed - Miembro del Parlamento escocés por el Partido Laborista, circunscripción de Edimburgo y Lothians Este.
• Tasmina Ahmed-Sheikh - exdiputada del SNP por Ochil y South Perthshire
• Foysol Choudhury - Miembro del Parlamento escocés por el Partido Laborista en la región de Lothian. Primera miembro del Parlamento escocés de ascendencia bangladesí.
• Zen Ghani - Miembro del Parlamento escocés por el SNP (Partido Nacional Escocés) por Glasgow Cathcart y Pollok.
• Pam Gosal - Conservative MSP for West Scotland region. First female MSP of Indian descent
• Ayesha Hazarika - Labour political advisor
• Simita Kumar - SNP MSP for Edinburgh South Western region.
• Bashir Maan - former Labour councillor
• Hanzala Malik - former Labour MSP for the Glasgow region; the first Scottish Asian MSP from the Scottish Labour party
• Nosheena Mobarik - (Conservative member of the House of Lords; former MEP for Scotland)
• Claude Moraes - former Labour MEP for London
• Anum Qaisar-Javed - Former SNP MP for Airdrie and Shotts (2021-24)
• Jainti Dass Saggar - first non-White local authority councillor in Scotland
• Anas Sarwar - Leader of the Scottish Labour Party (2021-present), first ethnic minority to be leader of a Scottish political party. MSP for Glasgow region (2016–present); former Labour MP for Glasgow Central (2010-2015)
• Mohammed Sarwar - former Labour MP for Glasgow Central (1997-2010), father of Anas Sarwar.
• Kaukab Stewart - Former SNP MSP for Glasgow Kelvin (2021-2026). First MSP female of colour elected
• Yi-pei Chou Turvey - Liberal Democrat MSP for the North East Scotland region.
• Humza Yousaf - Former First Minister of Scotland (2023-2024) and SNP MSP for Glasgow Pollok (2016-2026).

• Aqeel Ahmed, boxer
• Tanveer Ahmed, boxer
• Jamie Bhatti, rugby union player
• Asim Butt, cricketer
• David Changleng, rugby union player and referee
• Malcolm Changleng, rugby union player and referee
• Ukashir Farooq, boxer
• Majid Haq, cricketer
• Omer Hussain, cricketer
• Moneeb Iqbal, cricketer
• Jazz Juttla, former footballer
• Vishal Marwaha, hockey player
• Rashid Sarwar, former footballer
• Safyaan Sharif, cricketer
• Qasim Sheikh, cricketer

• Mohammed Atif Siddique, convicted of terrorism offences
• Mamta Singhal, winner of the Women Engineering Society Prize - Young Women Engineer of the Year 2007; finalist for Global MBA student of the Year 2008

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