ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the home is the central domain from which the author explore the writing of one Mirpuri migrant family from Pakistan. 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 fifty years. 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. In order to find out to what extent families draw on the availability of literacy in Mirpur in their migrations, the study reported in the current chapter sought to identify how the availability of literacy provides opportunities to shape the identities at home. At this point it would be helpful to elaborate on how different settings and goals require different literacy practices for different communities of practice.
