Emigration from Scotland between the wars

An evaluation of Scottish emigration, focusing on the relationship between colonization schemes arising under the Empire Settlement Act 1922 and the influences of family networks, private enterprise, philanthropic sponsorship and the activities of professional agents. The author seeks to establish whether Scots were persuaded to settle elsewhere by the same priorities that had influenced their predecessors. The author draws on a wide variety of source material including official publications from the Overseas Settlement Department of the Colonial (later Dominions) Office, the Board of Trade and Scottish Department of Agriculture and Fisheries, archives held by the Canadian Department of Immigration and Colonization, newspaper material and school records. The author sets out the Scottish experience of migration in the context of the rest of the British Isles, and assesses the influence of emigration agents and the organized religious and political movements which encouraged emigration. Chapters organized by geographical area highlight the factors which influenced emigration from those particular areas.