In conversation with Aamna Mohadin, journalist and author.

Aamna Mohdin is the Guardian’s first community affairs correspondent, reporting on the social, political and economic experiences of the UK’s diverse communities. She was previously a reporter at Quartz where she led the publication’s coverage of the European refugee crisis. Mohdin won a British Journalism Award in 2022, and her work on the Guardian's Cotton Capital special investigation was awarded a British Press Award 2024. She lives in London with her husband and son. Scattered is her first book.

In 2015, Aamna Mohdin travelled to Calais to report from the frontlines of the refugee crisis. When she returned to London, and discussed what she had seen with her parents, their response surprised her: didn’t she remember being a refugee herself?

Scattered is a staggering investigation into the costs and consequences of displacement, from a young woman uniquely placed to explore the refugee experience and its aftershocks. A powerful reportage, it is also an epic story of returns and reunions; and a joyful celebration of family and belonging.

‘The only way out of the crisis of exclusion sweeping across the Atlantic Ocean is storytelling … In so luminously recounting the story of her family Mohdin achieves an imaginative breakthrough that everyone should read’ SAMUEL MOYN, Professor of Law and History at Yale University