How did we arrive at this place? Gangs of aggressive men are gathering outside Scottish primary schools to harass and intimidate a handful of mums who seek nothing more than to learn the language of their new country. In Falkirk , similar, larger groups threaten the wellbeing of the wretched asylum-seekers cowering inside.

Their faces are creased in a hatred that seems to be rooted in something much darker than ‘protecting the women’ and ‘protecting the kids’.

Maggie Lennon saw something similar in the 1990s when refugees were pitched into Sighthill, in the north of Glasgow. She despairs that the initial errors made then are being repeated today.

Eventually, in Sighthill, the community tensions would recede so that today an entire generation of Scots with African heritage are firmly e

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