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14/07/2018 GMT

In Every Dream Home a Heartache

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Successful Pakistani immigrants living in Oslo return to the Punjab to build their dream home.

Over the last twenty years or so hundreds of mansions have appeared in the Kharian region of the Punjab. Each mansion represents a successful migration to the West – some people from this region migrated to the UK but, perhaps surprisingly, starting back in the early 60s most people from here migrated to Norway.

In Oslo these Punjabi men and their families have mostly lived in small spaces and had low paying jobs. For decades these men they have worked hard and saved hard. For them the dream, as well as the economic statement of success, is to own a mansion back in the Punjab – and now many of them do.

For three or four weeks a year the mansions are holiday homes to the returning migrants and their Norwegian born children – this is often a time when differences and rifts in extended families emerge and a time when young people must assess their futures.
 
Presented by Asad Ali Chardhry.

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