Urszula Chowaniec worked on the book as part of the project on The Ruined Bodies of the (e)Migrants, Tourists and Travellers in Contemporary Polish Women’s Writing (1989-2010). Analyses of Themes of Migration, Homelessness, Melancholy and Dislocation in Literature Written by Women (funded by National Science Centre/Narodowe Centrum Nauki, Poland decision no. DEC1-2011/01/B/HS2/01190).