ABSTRACT
First generation migrants who moved to Scotland did so for a wide variety of reasons. These included to flee from community hostility to mixed marriages; to avoid the shame and humility imposed on young women who fell pregnant out of wedlock; to pursue a romance with and often to marry a Scots man or woman; to serve as a priest following graduation from an Irish seminary; to avoid political and religious persecution and discrimination; to achieve freedom from what could be experienced as a stifling, conservative, and insular culture; and to avoid imprisonment for either political activities or more everyday acts of criminality.
