ABSTRACT
The primary motive for Pakistani migration to Britain in the late 50s and early 1960s was socio-economic. Single or bachelor-status married men leaving wives and children in Pakistan came to Britain to earn and save money that would enable their immediate kin at home to settle debts, extend landholdings, build new houses, give larger dowries, start businesses and so on 1 . The economic ‘pull’ towards Britain was a powerful one, because wages for labouring jobs in Britain in the early 1960s were over thirty times those offered for similar jobs in Pakistan. In Mirpur, for instance, the average weekly wage was equivalent to approximately 37 pence; in Birmingham, a Pakistani's average weekly wage was £13 2 .
