Black, African; Muslim, Asian? Coloniality and the Racialisation of Somalis in Scotland

In the previous chapter, a sustained critique of the Scottish Government’s New Scots policy and its modelling of ‘aspirational pluralism’ highlighted the governance of Somali ‘Southern Others’ in Scotland as entangled in regimes of colonial power, the execution of which is supported by distinctive temporal and spatial economies of bordering and citizenship developed in Scotland to manage ‘new’ migrants to its centre. In this context, the chapter began to sketch out some of the ways in which colonial power is (1) in ongoing operation in contemporary Somali migration experiences in Scotland and (2) shaped by emergent and divergent strategies of (the) colonial(ity of) power.