With a background in ethnology and cultural anthropology she has ample research experience in migration studies and a history of working as a project coordinator and manager. Using different methodological approaches, she has carried out several extensive field researches (in Australia, Argentina, Germany, Norway and Slovenia) and presented the results on several conferences and in the form of scientific reports and articles.  

Kristina has coordinated groups of researchers at the partner institution in two LLP projects and one project funded by the SEE Transnational Cooperation programme. Independently, she has led two projects on posted workers, funded by the EaSI programme, Progress axis. She co-organized the national foresight exercise under the SEEMIG project and has authored, co-authored or edited several reports, a handbook and a book on labour migration/mobility. Kristina was also co-editor and later editor-in-chief (2010-2012) of the main national academic journal in migration studies, Dve domovini / Two Homelands, and currently serves as editor-in-charge for the AEMI Journal. Since 2016 she has been involved as an external expert in the BA study programme at the Department of Sociology, Faculty of Arts, University of Maribor.

She is a member of Slovenian Ethnological Society, KULA, EASA – European Association of Social Anthropologists, SIEF – International Society for Ethnology and Folklore, and Society for Slovene Studies.

In her work she is dealing with problems of return migration, migration as cultural process, identifications and representation of migrants, and most recently with labour migration, labour mobility, especially mobility of artist and cultural professionals, and posted workers.