Martina Bofulin, a geographer and sinologist, received PhD in Ethnic Studies at the Faculty of Social Studies, University of Ljubljana. She was a postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Anthropology and Ethnology of the Faculty of Arts, University of Belgrade, and at the Global Collaboration Center of Osaka University. She joined the Slovenian Migration Institute in 2014, where her fields of interest include various aspects of mobility and migration between the People's Republic of China and Europe, issues of migrants' emplacement in Slovenia, and the nexus between migration and heritage-making. She is currently a leader of the Migration and Labour working group in China in Europe Research Network (CHERN) and an Honorary Research Fellow at UCL's European & International Social & Political Studies (2025 – 2027).
Fields of interest: migration and mobility from PR China, global China studies, immigration to Slovenia, migration studies, ethnic studies, transnational families, migration and heritage.
ROGELJA, Igor, BOFULIN, Martina. The internationalization of socialist enterprises: the convergent legacies, divergent developments and (un)surprising encounters. In: Anastas Vangelis and Dragan Pavličević (eds.), Yugoslavia and China: Histories, Legacies, Afterlives. Routledge (forthcoming in 2025).
BOFULIN, Martina (2025). Local diaspora engagement and emigration as a cultural resource: the case of a Europe-bound sending area in Southeast China. In: THUNØ, Mette, WANG Simeng (ur.) Handbook of Chinese migration to Europe. Leiden; Boston: Brill: 297-323. Brill handbooks of Chinese overseas, vol. 1.
BOFULIN, Martina (2024). Three's a crowd? Language assistance in mental healthcare settings in Slovenia. Dve domovini/ Two homelands 60 (2), 69–89.
BOFULIN, Martina. (2022) Qiaoxiang 2.0: PRC and diaspora governance at the local level. China Perspectives, 2022, iss. 131, str. 7-15. DOI: 10.4000/chinaperspectives.14313.
BOFULIN, Martina (2022). Heritagization of Chinese migration: from binaries to connections. Asian studies. [Print ed.]. 2022, vol. 10 (26), iss. 2, str. 385-396. ISSN 2232-5131. https://journals.uni-lj.si/as/article/view/10437/10200, DOI: 10.4312/as.2022.10.2.385-396.
BOFULIN, Martina (2021). Imported commodity city : a new model for the development of China's emigration hometowns?. Anthropological notebooks. [Spletna izd.]. 2021, vol. 27, issue 2, str. 1-19. ISSN 2232-3716. http://notebooks.drustvo-antropologov.si/Notebooks/article/view/443/368, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5810722.
BOFULIN, Martina (2021). Chinese Migrants and COVID-19 Pandemic. Global dialogue, Magazine of the International Sociological Association, vol. 11, no. 1 (in English, Spanish, Chinese, French, Hindi, Farsi, Portuguese, Arabic, Russian, Ukrainian, Polish and Romanian language). https://globaldialogue.isa-sociology.org/chinese-migrants-and-covid-19-pandemic/
BOFULIN, Martina (2020). Kitajski migranti in Covid-19 : mobilnost in izključevanje med pandemijo. [Chinese migrants and Covid-19: Mobility and Exclusion during Pandemic]. Dve domovini/ Two homelands, vol. 52, no. 95-111, doi: 10.3986/dd.2020.2.06
BOFULIN, Martina, ROGELJA, Nataša, PIPAN, Primož (2020). Discussions on statue removal at ACHC 2020 and beyond. Heriscope : observing heritage making on the margins, no 1, p. 4-13. https://dediscina.zrc-sazu.si/en/2020/09/discussions-on-statue-removal-at-achc-2020-and-beyond/#page-content
BOFULIN, Martina (2018). O mlečni formuli in plenicah : prepletene mobilnosti predmetov in ljudi v kitajskih transnacionalnih družbenih prostorih [On milk formula and diapers: entangled mobilities of objects and people in Chinese transnational spaces]. Dve domovini/ Two homelands, no. 47, p. 147-162.
CUKUT KRILIĆ, Sanja, BOFULIN, Martina (2018). Migranti in dostop do informacij : vloga novih tehnologij v procesu integracije v Podonavju in širše [Migrants and access to information: the role of new technologies in Danube region and beyond]. Glasnik Slovenskega etnološkega društva, vol. 59, no. 2, p. 60-70.
BOFULIN, Martina (2018). Transnational Matchmaking: Marriage Practices of Chinese Migrants from Qingtian Living in Europe. In Christian Groes and Nadine Fernandez (eds.), Intimate Mobilities: Sexual Economies, Marriage and Migration in a Disparate World. London, Berghahn Books, p. 31–51.
BOFULIN, Martina (2017). Building memorials for a friend or a foe? : Mobility and heritage dissonance amid China-Japan conflict. Anthropological notebooks, vol. 23, no. 3, p. 45-61. http://www.drustvo-antropologov.si/AN/PDF/2017_3/Anthropological_Notebooks_XIII_3_Bofulin.pdf
BOFULIN, Martina, COATES Jamie (2017). Bakugai! : explosive shopping and entangled Sino-Japanese mobilities. AAA Anthropology news, Jan. 2017. http://www.anthropology-news.org/index.php/2017/01/24/bakugai-explosive-shopping-and-entangled-sino-japanese-mobilities/
BOFULIN, Martina (2017). Family-making in the transnational social field : the child-raising practices of Chinese migrants in Slovenia. Journal of Chinese overseas, vol. 13, no. 1, p. 94-118, doi: 10.1163/17932548-12341345
BOFULIN, Martina (2016). Daleč doma : migracije iz Ljudske republike Kitajske v Slovenijo [Home away from home: migration from PR China to Slovenia], (Series Migration, 25). Ljubljana: ZRC SAZU Publishing House, 2016. 242 p.
Population Medicine and Sustainable Development: European Opportunities in collaborating with China to improving global health (international research project • January 1, 2023 - December 31, 2026)
Chinese migrants in Southeast Europe: inclusion and exclusion at the beginning of the 21. century (USA - Slovenia bilateral research cooperation with Texas University at Austin) (bilateral project • July 1, 2022 - June 30, 2024)
CHERN (international project • November 1, 2019 - November 7, 2023)
Heritage on the margins: new perspectives on heritage and identity within and beyond national (research programme • January 1, 2019 - December 31, 2024)
DRIM (Danube Region Information Platform for Economic Integration of Migrants) (international project • January 1, 2017 - June 30, 2019)
Trans-making – Art / culture / economy to democratize society. Research in placemaking for alternative narratives (international research project • January 1, 2017 - December 31, 2020)