My New Home

Writer: Daisy Asquith

Introduction | The way I work | The children | Moving here | Staying here

The children

The three children in My New Home only really have one thing in common – they are from somewhere else. Apart from that they have had totally different experiences both in their original countries and in Britain.

Altynay – from the programme Channel 4

Imran came from a village in Pakistan where he had never been to school regularly, he came to Peterborough to live with his mum and her British Pakistani second husband.

Altynay came from Bishkek, the capital city of Kyrgyzstan, where she lived in a tower block with her hard-working aunties and grandmother. She and her mum now live in a picturesque village in South Yorkshire.

Marshal came from a relatively well-off family in Zimbabwe after his mum fled Mugabe's regime five years earlier. They now live on a council estate in Tyneside.

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