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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 senior researcher at the Institute for Research on Population and Social Policies of the National Research Council from 2001 to 2022. He is geographer and demographer. His research interests are focused on the territorial aspects of the structures and dynamics of demographic and socio-economic processes, especially migration, both internal and international. His current projects are the study of family types and their dynamics, the research on various aspects of internal migration in Italy and the observation of residential segregation.

Roma

frank.heins@irpps.cnr.it

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Curriculum Vitae

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Frank Heins was from 2001 to 2022 the first researcher and research manager at the Research Institute on Population and Social Policies of the National Research Council. He is a geographer and demographer. His research is focused on the territorial aspects of the structures and dynamics of demographic and socio-economic processes, in particular migration, both internal and international. His current projects concern the study of different types of families and their dynamics, the analysis of various aspects of internal migration in Italy and the observation of residential segregation.
His major research interest are:

  • geographic aspects of demographic and socio-economic structures and dynamics
    geographic differences of demographic behaviour (family formation, internal and international migration, mortality)
  • internal migration: comparing Italy and other industrialised countries
    local demographics and processes of residential segregation
  • the Italian-German migrations since the 50s
  • Italian emigration today
Publications:
  • Bonifazi C., De Rocchi D., Heins F., 2021, Roma hub della mobilità. In M. Colucci, S. Gallo (a cura di) 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, Dimensioni e caratteristiche della nuova emigrazione italiana. Quaderni di Sociologia, 86, 9-31.
  • Bonifazi C., De Rocchi D., Heins F., Panzeri G., 2021, La mortalità nei Sistemi Locali del Lavoro durante la prima ondata della pandemia di COVID-19. Roma: Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche – Istituto di Ricerche sulla Popolazione e le Politiche Sociali. (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 (a cura di) Populations et crises en Méditerranée. Milano, 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 14.07.2020. [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, Le traiettorie di mobilità: arrivare e muoversi in Italia. In: Istat, Vita e percorsi di integrazione degli immigrati in Italia. Roma. 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. (a cura di), 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, La popolazione straniera residente nei sistemi locali del lavoro italiani. In: Bonifazi C. (a cura di) Migrazioni e integrazioni nell’Italia di oggi. 117-129
  • Benassi F., Heins F., Lipizzi F., Paluzzi E., 2017, La segregazione residenziale di alcune collettività straniere nel Sistema locale del lavoro di Roma 2001 – 2011. In: Bonifazi C. (a cura di) 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. (a cura di), Internal Migration in the Developed World. Are we becoming less mobile? Routeledge, Oxon. 242-262
  • Bonifazi C., Heins F., Licari F., Tucci E., 2016, Le migrazioni interne in Italia nel 2013-2014: gli aspetti territoriali. In Colucci M., Gallo S. (a cura di), Fare spazio. Rapporto 2016 sulle migrazioni interne in Italia. Roma, Donzelli Editore. 3-23
  • Bonifazi C., Heins F., Tucci E., 2014, Le migrazioni interne in Italia nel 2011-12. In Colucci M., Gallo S. (a cura di), L’arte di spostarsi. Rapporto 2014 sulle migrazioni interne in Italia. Roma, Donzelli Editore. 3-20
  • Bonifazi C., Heins F., Tucci E., 2012, Le migrazioni interne degli stranieri al tempo dell’immigrazione. 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, Ancora migranti: la nuova mobilità degli italiani. In Storia d’Italia. Annali 24. Migrazioni. Grandi Opere. Torino, 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
For a complete list of publications

Research projects I participate

Completed research projects I partecipated in:

  • Family and demographic policies: European context and Italian situation - DiPoFam / CNR-IRPPS
  • DEMIFER - Demographic and Migratory Flows affecting European Regions and Cities. (ESPON) 
  • New Molise migrations
  • IDEA - Mediterranean and Eastern European as New Immigration Destinations in the European Union. (FP6 - VI European Commission Framework Program)
  • Ethiopia

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