It is during this contemporary phase of marriage migration that Usman (from Mirpur), whose home literacy practices are explored in this chapter, and Nadia (from Lancashire) came to be married. We have new and used copies available, in 2 editions - starting at 23.63. With increasing curbs on immigration by successive UK governments, marriage migration became the means by which Mirpuris demonstrated their kinship responsibilities by marrying British Mirpuris, often in Mirpur, but then moving to the UK to live. Thinking home: interdisciplinary dialogues by Sanja Bahun and Bojana Petri, 1st ed., London, Bloomsbury Academic, 2018, 248pp., 85.00 (hbk), ISBN: 978-1-3500-6237-5 Lindsey McCarthy Sheffield Hallam University Correspondence l.mccarthyshu.ac. Buy Thinking Home: Interdisciplinary Dialogues by Sanja Bahun (Editor), Bojana Petric (Editor) online at Alibris. In the first phase (from the 1950s to the 1960s), male labour migrants left Azad Kashmir for the textile mills of Lancashire, and were quickly reunited by their wives and children in the family reunion phase (1960s to 1970s). Mirpur town, in the Azad Kashmir region of Pakistan, is bound to the north west of England through three phases of chain migration, which have developed over the past 50 years. In this chapter, the home is the central domain from which I explore the writing of one Mirpuri migrant family from Pakistan.
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