Agnieszka Małek, PhD is a sociologist and Assistant Professor at the Institute of American Studies and Polish Diaspora of the Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland. Her research interests include migration, ethnicity and gender with special emphasis on domestic service, social policy and return migration. She teaches courses on cultural anthropology, U.S. society, and migration and ethnicity in Italy. She is the author and co-author of several articles on migration and gender as well as the co-editor of a book on migration and citizenship. Dorota Praszałowicz is Professor of Sociology at the Institute of American Studies and Polish Diaspora of the Jagiellonian University in Krakow (Poland). In 2003/2004 she was Fulbright Scholar at the New York University. She teaches courses on world migrations, migration theories, and on ethnic groups and ethnic relations in the U.S., especially on Polish, Jewish and German groups. She is the author of three books on Polish American past and present. She is also interested in gender perspective in migration studies. Her recent research projects include Poles in Berlin: research perspectives.