Helen Kambouri has two children (Loukia 6 and Alexis 2) and is working hard to combine care with work. She is also employed as a research fellow at the Centre for Gender Studies, Panteion University, where she has conducted research on different aspects of migration and gender policies, processes and practices. She has published several articles on gender, migration and social movements and, more recently, «Feminine jobs/Masculine becomings: Gender and identity in the discourse of Albanian domestic workers in Greece» European Journal of Women’s Studies, 15 (1) (2008) and Gender, Migration and Domestic Work (Athens: Gutenberg, 2007). In 2008 she was guest editor of the Special Issue “Gendering Border Crossings” published in the on-line journal Re-public and published the essay “Making violent practices public” in the Videovortex Reader.