Jordanna Bailkin is a scholar of modern Britain and Empire. She is currently the Jere L. Bacharach Endowed Professor in International Studies and Professor of History at the University of Washington in Seattle. She is the author of The Culture of Property (2004), and The Afterlife of Empire (2012). The Afterlife of Empire won the Morris D. Forkosch Prize from the American Historical Association, the Stansky Book Prize from the North American Conference on British Studies, and the Biennial Book Prize from the Pacific Coast Conference on British Studies. She has also written articles on tattooing in Burma, interracial murder in India, and parenthood in Nigeria.

"Among the many virtues of this book is its timely reminder that Western Europe, including Britain, was itself once a "land of camps," where people lived in limbo, often arriving from settlements elsewhere, and facing fluctuating resentment from their hosts. A striking array of people, with different relationships to Britain's imperial and wartime pasts, are assembled by Jordanna Bailkin. The reader encounters the full spectrum of those in flight." -- Andrew Thompson, Journal of Modern History

"Unsettled provokes scholars to reposition their focus by analysing camp settings as an integral and active part of the historical narrative, rather than as a dormant backdrop. Unsettled will undoubtedly remain a permanent fixture on reading lists across both the social sciences and humanities, and is key reading for anyone who is interested in the social and ethnic formation." -- Eliana Hadjisavvas, Institute of Historical Research, University of London, Journal of Contemporary History

"a singularly impressive contribution to 20th-century British history ... the appearance of Unsettled could not be timelier" -- Dr Peter Gatrell, Reviews in History