Why do Scots migrate?

Answer 1

Originally, in the nineteenth century, it was because of the highland clearances in which landowners with that rented out to farmers (crofters in Scots) and clan chiefs that officially owned the land their clans lived on evicted the tenants and clansmen from their farmhouses (crofts) and abodes so they could rear sheep as they were more profitable - although before that, Scotland had it's own colony in North America known as Nova Scotia (and had planned to make one in Panama, which had failed) which was treated as an equal part of Scotland (same way France treated her colonies and now overseas territories) and a part of Scotland within the United Kingdom after the union of parliaments.

In more modern days, it's more likely to be the poor state of living in most of Scotland because of our presence in the united kingdom. (Overall, Scotland doesn't loses a small amount of money to westminster, and has to give away it's possible exports such as Electricity, Fruit, and most crucially Oil - Scotland is a major oil-producing nation and doesn't receive a penny for it)

Answer 2

It is estimated that there are over 30 million people of Scots descent all over the world. Most Scots emigrated for a better life abroad to Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, U.S.A. and many other places including England. But in the early 19th century the so called 'Highland Clearances' were to blame for forced emigration.

Answer 3

people from scotland were banished and sent off the land as their villages and homes were taken and burnt from them they had nowher to go many starved and mANY WERE FORCED ON TO SHIPS to leave scotland they wer starving and brutally asulted by their own people wh wanted to clear the land for farming etc 750,000 scotish people were treated this way and treated like slaves or worse when then arrived in usa islands etc

Some of the emigration was voluntary - so the answer above is not strictly accurate.The Highland Clearances, sometimes in Scotland's history just referred to as 'The Clearances' were a period of huge social upheaval throughout the Highlands of Scotland. Some commentators interpret the Highland Clearances as a form of ethnic cleansing. Other historians see the uprooting of a native population as inevitable, given the changing economic and political climate in the north that gained momentum towards the end of the 18th century.

Answer 4

Probably as a result of the Irish potato famine of the 1840s.

Answer 5

Because of a process called "Land Clearance" (they were forced to leave their rented farms by the English landlords who needed to land to plant crops).