ABSTRACT
A survey of 700 Pakistani men in Glasgow in the mid-1960s indicated that 200 were employed as bus conductors and drivers, 100 worked in rubber factories, 30 in the chemical industry, and 30 in brick factories. During the 1960s it became clear that the British government intended to impose restrictions on immigration from the New Commonwealth and Pakistan. A study of the distribution of Indian and Pakistani settlement in Glasgow up to 1971 traced the movement of the small, concentrated settlement from the Gorbals area, south to Govanhill and Pollokshields, and north-west to Garnethill, Woodside and the West End. Research during the 1980s estimated Glasgow's Indian/Pakistani population to be about 17,000. The vast majority of households who had moved within the previous two years had done so within Glasgow. The 'ethnic question' asked respondents to choose an identity from a given list: White, Black Caribbean, Black African, Black Other, Indian, Pakistani, Bangladeshi, Chinese, Other Asian and Other.
