dr Kamila Kowalska

dr Kamila Kowalska

Assistant Professor at the Institute of Political Science and expert at Migration Observatory at the University of Gdańsk. Graduate of law and international relations at the University of Wrocław and postgraduate studies in migration and refugees at the ‘Sapienza’ University in Rome. She obtained her doctoral degree in social sciences in the discipline of political science and administration at the Faculty of Political Sciences and International Studies, University of Warsaw. Member of the Migration Policy Analysis Team in the Migration Research Committee of the Polish Academy of Sciences and of the Editorial Team of the journal ‘Polish Migration Review’. Since 2003, she has been associated academically and professionally with Rome, where she conducted teaching work and research on labour migration of Poles to Italy, collaborating, among others, with the Centre for Migration Studies at Caritas Italiana. During the academic year 2007-2008, she taught labour sociology at the ‘Sapienza’ University of Rome, and gave guest lectures at the capital’s Tor Vergata and Lumsa Universities. From 2010 to 2024 she was employed at the Polish Embassy in Rome, where she was in charge of labour law and Polish policy. She has authored numerous articles and reports on migration and monographs: ‘Does Italian work pay? Employment of qualified Polish women in Italy against the background of Polish-Italian migration’ (2022). Co-author of three monographs on Polish diaspora in Italy: ’Poland. The new borderland country. From migrants to EU citizens’ (2006), ‘Poles in Italy. Current state, transformations and perspectives’ (2016) and “Emigrazioni e immigrazioni polacche in Italia: doppi sguardi (2025). Her research interests include: migration, integration and diaspora policies, labour migration, labour market, highly skilled migrants and migrants, women’s migration, migrant entrepreneurship, Poles in Italy.

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