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Product Description Refugees or Migrant Workers? contributes to our knowledge of early post-second world war migration to Britain by providing a comprehensive and theoretically informed account of the European volunteer worker scheme which was organized by the Labour government. The book discusses the policy tensions arising from the hybrid nature of the scheme as both a labor migration and a refugee relocation program, the reaction of British trade unions to the recruitment of foreign labor, and the resistance from the EVW's to the employment restrictions which defined them as a form of unfree labor. It concludes with a discussion of the theoretical significance of the history of the scheme. Richly illustrated and acutely observed, Refugees or Migrant Workers? is of interest to social historians, sociologists and political scientists. About the Author Robert Miles is Reader in Sociology at the University of Glasgow, and is the author of Racism (Routledge 1989). Diana Kay is presently a free-lance researcher, and is the author of Chileans in Exile.