Colm Wilson from Fife Migrants Forum says Scotland is not anti-immigrant and we talk about the positive benefits of migration.

Professor Rebecca Kay from the University of Glasgow says there needs to be evidence for the settled population. 

We cannot ignore that there a number of Scots that do not agree with the positive benefits of migration, says Prof Kay. 

Professor Christina Boswell from the University of Edinburgh says there are both risks and opportunities in the Brexit debate in Scotland.

Professor Boswell says "we need to think about how we can foster a more well informed debate on immigration."

She says there is a real opportunity for Scotland to do things differently in Scotland. 

The academic says there is an anti-expert post-truth climate around immigration after the Brexit vote.  

Professor Rebecca Kay from the University of Glasgow says there was a strong feeling amongst education authorities in Glasgow that having pupils from elsewhere assisted the educational process.

Professor Robert Wright from the University of Strathclyde says there was a study at UCL that showed immigrants pay much more into the system than they take out.

Prof. Wright says there is no evidence that immigrants are sponging of the state, the opposite is true.

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Britons living around Europe would have been left "high and dry" if the rights of EU citizens to stay in the UK had been guaranteed, the PM has said.

Theresa May said EU leaders' remarks showed it was "absolutely right" for the UK not to have acted unilaterally.

EU Council president Donald Tusk has said there can be no "reciprocal" deal on expats until formal talks begin.

He was responding to criticism from Tory politicians who accused EU figures of "standing in the way" of a deal.

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SNP MSP Emma Harper says we need to attract people from all over the world and asks what it needs to look like to make that happen.

Professor Christina Boswell from the University of Edinburgh says it may be that we can attract people, with the relevant skills, to sectors that are struggling to recruit people, in healthcare for example. 

"There are a range of options to be explored and need to be explored," she says. 

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Professor Robert Wright from the University of Strathclyde says it is an exaggeration to say Scotland is more positive about migration it is just they are less negative then the rest of the UK.

Prof Wright says it is a major exaggeration to say the average man of woman on the street is more positive about migration.

Professor Kay says it is not as simple as people just going home if they are uncomfortable here.

She says the road home is not always an easy one for many people.

She says people should be treated as people and not economic units. 

Professor Rebecca Kay from the University of Glasgow says we want people to settle and stay, not just boost the jobs market.

Professor Kay says social support for families and access to education has to be available to migrants.

Richard Lochhead says many people who voted leave assume that if people don't come from Europe, they will still come from other countries around the world.

He asks if EU immigration will be replace by non-EU immigration. 

Professor Christina Boswell from the University of Edinburgh says it is a very complex question but she expects to see a decrease in EU migration and that may well be replaced by non-EU migration.

Professor Robert Wright from the University of Strathclyde says there is assumption that immigrants will come from elsewhere. 

Professor Wright says there is a moral issue here and asks if we should be going into Poland and stripping out their brightest and smartest workers.

He says we are damaging their economy and perhaps we should be going further afield to people who want to come here.  

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SNP MSP Richard Lochhead says the working age population will see a 13% increase in England and a 1% increase in Scotland.

Kirsty MacLachlan from the National Records of Scotland says Scotland has lower fertility.

Angela Hallam from Scottish government says agriculture is constant and requires migrant workers. 

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Europe's leaders are united in their determination to keep their negotiating cards close to their chests until the UK triggers Article 50.

National leaders like Angela Merkel and EU officials like the Council President Donald Tusk alike are adamant that there will be no side deals or talks on individual issues until Britain makes the first move.

But Theresa May's talks with her Polish counterpart Beata Szydlo this week suggested that the British side believes some issues can at least be discussed at this stage with individual member states.

Mrs May repeated her view that an early agreement could be reached guaranteeing the rights of Polish citizens in Britain as long as the rights of British residents of Poland were also protected.

Colm Wilson from Fife Migrants Forum says migrants flow in and flow out. 

Mr Wilson says employers in Fife tell him that their businesses wouldn't exist without migrants.

He says without migrant workers, businesses will go to the wall.