Race Equality in Scotland: Challenges and Opportunities
This IPPI Policy Brief sets out why race equality matters in Scotland and highlights examples from which the rest of the UK could learn in the aspiration for race equality and a successful approach to citizenship. It identifies two ways through which Scotland can better improve public policy on race equality. The first is a more systematic approach to data collection on ethnic monitoring across the public sector. (Ethnic monitoring is currently common practice in some areas but entirely absent in others; a best practice approach would level this upwards). Secondly, how existing statutory commitments could be more consistently put into practice, especially in terms of the Equality Duty, by making fully operational use of existing instruments, rather than calling for new legislation.
Equality: The New Legal Framework
1. The Aims of Equality Law 2. Protected Characteristics 3. Prohibited Conduct 4. Work and Equal Pay 5. Services, Premises, Education, Associations, and Other Unlawful Acts 6. Advancement of Equality 7. Enforcement 8. An Appraisal
Utopian Political Theory and Migration without Borders
A utopian political theory (UPT) can emerge from the analysis of borders. The significant increase in human mobility between State-borders constitutes the empirical referent distinguishing our i°Utopian Agei± from others in the past, as historical examples of UPT have not dealt with either the issue of human mobility or the topic of i°Migration without Bordersi±. We start with a brief introduction about utopia as a political discourse (section 1). We go then to the main characteristics of UPT leading to a i°world without bordersi± (section 2). We seek to address this issue theoretically, to establish the bases of utopian thought not so much as a social theory, but rather as a political theory (section 3). This constitutes a prior phase for dealing with the irresolvable political dilemmas that have emerged from the management of migratory flows (section 4).