Mrs Chowdhury arrived in the UK from the small city of Sylhet in north-east Bangladesh last year.

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But the big boom in Bangladeshi migration mostly from the eastern Sylhet region came in the 1950s and early 1960s.

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One reason is the high incidence of migration from poor, rural parts of South Asia, such as Mirpur in Kashmir and Sylhet in Bangladesh.

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