英聞天天譯: 蘇格蘭移民

At the Polish Club in Glasgow, Scots and Poles socialise easily. Many of the customers in its restaurant are Scottish, eager to try Polish food before going there on holiday, says 16-year-old Maria, who moved to Scotland eight years ago and works in the club part-time as a waitress. She, bycontrast, has no desire to return. Scotland's welcome has been warm. Its government wants it to be warmer still.
Scotland's leaders have long maintained that they need immigrants more than the rest of Britain does, both to boost the country's sparse population and to alleviate skills shortages. Between 1981 and 2003 Scotland's population declined. Most of the population growth that Scotland has seen since then has been thanks to migrants, largely from outside Britain. Scots are having fewer children and ageing more rapidly than other Britons: on current trends the Scottish population will swell by just 4% by 2062 compared with 23% for Britain as a whole, according to the Institute for Fiscal Studies. The only cohort expected to grow is the oldest one.