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Council

Institute for Research
on Population
and Social Policies

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National
Research
Council

Institute for Research
on Population
and Social Policies

Frank Heins

He was a Senior Researcher at the Institute for Research on Population and Social Policies of the National Research Council from 2001 to 2022. His research focuses on the territorial aspects of the structures and dynamics of demographic and socio-economic processes, particularly migration.

Rome

frank.heins@irpps.cnr.it

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Curriculum Vitae

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From 2001 to 2022, Frank Heins was a Senior Researcher and Research Director at the Institute for Research on Population and Social Policies of the National Research Council. He is a geographer and demographer. His research focuses on the territorial aspects of the structures and dynamics of demographic and socio-economic processes, particularly migration, both internal and international. His current projects involve the study of different family types and their dynamics, the analysis of various aspects of internal migration in Italy, and the observation of residential segregation.
His main areas of interest are:

  • territorial aspects of demographic and socio-economic structures and dynamics
    territorial differences in demographic behavior
  • internal migration – a comparison between Italy and other industrialized countries
    local demography and residential segregation processes
  • Italian-German migration since the 1950s
  • Italian emigration today
Publications:
  • Bonifazi C., De Rocchi D., Heins F., 2021, Rome as a mobility hub. In M. Colucci, S. Gallo (eds.) Le strade per Roma. Rapporto 2021 sulle migrazioni interne in Italia. Bologna, Il Mulino. 23-57
  • Benassi F., Carella M., Heins F., 2021, Migration in the Mediterranean region: A response to crises and an emergency in its own right. Investigaciones Geográficas, 77, 15-36. [Doi: 10.14198/INGEO.19461]
  • Bonifazi C., Heins F., Tucci E., 2021, Dimensions and characteristics of the new Italian emigration. Quaderni di Sociologia, 86, 9-31.
  • Bonifazi C., De Rocchi D., Heins F., Panzeri G., 2021, Mortality in Local Labor Systems during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. Rome: National Research Council – Institute for Research on Population and Social Policies. (IRPPS Working papers n. 127/2021). [http://epub.irpps.cnr.it/index.php/wp/article/view/271/259]
  • Carella M., Heins F., 2021, L’impact de la Grande Récession sur les modèles familiaux des jeunes adultes en Europe du Sud. In G. Bellis, M. Carella, J-F. Léger, A. Parant (eds.) Populations et crises en Méditerranée. Milan, Franco Angeli. 89-107.
  • Bonifazi C., Heins F., Licari F., Tucci E., 2020, The regional dynamics of internal migration intensities in Italy. Population, Space and Place (Special issue ‘Declining internal migration? Patterns, causes and prospects’ Ian Shuttleworth, Tony Champion), e2331. [Doi: 10.1002/psp.2331]
  • Benassi F., Bonifazi C., Heins F., Lipizzi F., Strozza S., 2020, Comparing Residential Segregation of Migrant Populations in Selected European Urban and Metropolitan Areas. Spatial Demography, published online July 14, 2020. [Doi: 10.1007/s40980-020-00064-5X]
  • Benassi F., Bonifazi C., Heins F., Licari F., Tucci E., 2020, Population Change and International and Internal Migration in Italy, 2002-2017: Ravenstein Revisited. Comparative Population Studies. 44, (Sep. 2020), 497-531. [Doi: 10.12765/CPoS-2020-16]
  • Bonifazi C., Caruso M.G., Heins F., Paparusso A., Panaccione D., 2018, Mobility trajectories: arriving and moving in Italy. In: Istat, Vita e percorsi di integrazione degli immigrati in Italia. Rome. Istat. 35-51.
  • Benassi F., Heins F., Lipizzi F., Paluzzi E., 2018, Measuring residential segregation of selected foreign groups with aspatial and spatial evenness indices. A case study. In Perna C., Pratesi M., Ruiz-Gazen A. (eds.), Studies in Theoretical and Applied Statistics. SIS 2016, Salerno, Italy, June 8–10. (Springer Proceedings in Mathematics & Statistics 227). Cham. Springer International Publishing. 189-199
  • Albani M., Guarneri A., Frank Heins F., 2017, The foreign resident population in Italian local labor systems. In: Bonifazi C. (ed.) Migrazioni e integrazioni nell’Italia di oggi. 117-129
  • Benassi F., Heins F., Lipizzi F., Paluzzi E., 2017, Residential segregation of selected foreign groups in the Rome Local Labor System 2001 – 2011. In: Bonifazi C. (ed.) Migrazioni e integrazioni nell’Italia di oggi. 131-144
  • Bonifazi C., Heins F., 2017, Internal migration patterns in Italy: continuity and change before and during the great recession. In Rivista Italiana di Economia Demografia e Statistica, LXXI, 2, 5-24
  • Bonifazi C., Heins F., Tucci E., 2017, Italy: internal migration in a low-mobility country. In Champion T., Cooke T., Shuttleworth I. (eds.), Internal Migration in the Developed World. Are we becoming less mobile? Routledge, Oxon. 242-262
  • Bonifazi C., Heins F., Licari F., Tucci E., 2016, Internal migration in Italy in 2013-2014: territorial aspects. In Colucci M., Gallo S. (eds.), Fare spazio. Rapporto 2016 sulle migrazioni interne in Italy. Rome, Donzelli Editore. 3-23
  • Bonifazi C., Heins F., Tucci E., 2014, Internal migration in Italy in 2011-12. In Colucci M., Gallo S. (eds.), L’arte di spostarsi. Rapporto 2014 sulle migrazioni interne in Italia. Rome, Donzelli Editore. 3-20
  • Bonifazi C., Heins F., Tucci E., 2012, Internal migration of foreigners in the era of immigration. In Meridiana. Rivista di storia e di scienze sociali, 75 (Migrazioni interne), 173-190
  • Rees P., Gaag N. van der, Beer J. De, Heins F., 2012, European Regional Populations: Current Trends, Future Pathways, and Policy Options. In European Journal of Population/Revue européenne de Démographie, 4, 385-416
  • Bonifazi C., Heins F., 2009, Still migrants: the new mobility of Italians. In Storia d’Italia. Annali 24. Migrazioni. Grandi Opere. Turin, Giulio Einaudi. 505-528
  • Heins F., 2006, Regionale Bevölkerungsentwicklung in Italien. Zeitschrift für Bevölkerungswissenschaft, 31, 3-4, 575-612
  • Haug S., Heins F., 2005, Italian migrants in Germany. A statistical overview and a research bibliographical note. Studi Emigrazione/Migration Studies, 158, 227-243
Full list of publications

Research projects I am involved in

Completed research projects I have participated in

  • Family and demographic policies: European context and Italian reality – DiPoFam/CNR-IRPPS
  • DEMIFER – Demographic and migratory flows affecting european regions and cities. (ESPON)
  • New migrations from Molise
  • IDEA – Mediterranean and Eastern European as New Immigration Destinations in the European Union. (FP6 – VI European Commission Framework Programme)
  • Ethiopia

ORCID iD https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3185-7002