Senior Researcher at CNR-IRPPS. He is a demographer and the head of the research activity “Populations and Migration”, where he focuses particularly on international migration, residential mobility, and settlement patterns in urban areas.
Rome
massimiliano.crisci@irpps.cnr.it
+39 06 492724 244
He is a demographer specializing in the interpretation of major socio-demographic phenomena and the study of population structures and dynamics at regional and local levels, with a specific interest in residential mobility and urban settlement patterns.
His research interests focus primarily on territorial mobility, aiming to use interdisciplinary tools and quantitative and qualitative methods to study different types of mobility based on reason, duration, and distance, evaluating their complementary elements and impact on both origin and destination societies.
The forms of mobility considered are primarily: international migration; internal migration, particularly temporary labor migration; urban sprawl or urban diffusion; intra-urban residential moves; and commuting for work and study purposes.
The Rome metropolitan area represents a key field of analysis for studying mobility phenomena, demographic evolution, and settlement patterns of residents (both Italian and foreign), as well as for conducting population forecasts at the provincial, municipal, and district levels.
He has participated in numerous national and international research projects and is the author of monographs and many essays and articles in books and scientific journals.
He is the coordinator of the CNR-IRPPS research unit within the Metromosaic project, “Patterns, drivers, and outcomes of residential (im)mobility in the urban regions of Milan and Rome: sociodemographic transformations and challenges for local cohesion,” funded by the Cariplo Foundation.
Rimoldi, S.M.L., Crisci, M., Benassi, F., Raymer, J. (2024). Intra-urban residential mobility, and spatial segregation of foreigners in Rome: Illustration of a Southern European metropolis in the 2000s, Population, Space and Place, e2777. (https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/psp.2777)
Crisci, M., Rimoldi, S.M.L., Menonna, A., Santurro, M. (2024). Residential mobility within the Italian metropolitan areas in the 2000s. A territorial focus on Rome and Milan, in: J. M. Feria Toribio, R. Iglesias-Pascual, F. Benassi (Eds.) Socio-Spatial Dynamics in Mediterranean Europe. Exploring Metropolitan Structural Processes and Short-term Change. Spatial Demography Book Series, Springer. (https://link.springer.com/book/9783031554353)
Crisci, M., Santurro, M. (2023). Micro-Segregation of Ethnic Minorities in Rome: Highlighting Specificities of National Groups in Micro-Segregated Areas. Land, 12(10), 1870. (https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/12/10/1870)
Crisci, M. (2022). The impact of the real estate crisis on a south european metropolis: from urban diffusion to Reurbanisation. Applied Spatial Analysis and Policy, 15(3), 797-820. (https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12061-021-09420-4)
Crisci M., Benassi F., Rabiei-Dastjerdi H., McArdle G. (2022). Spatio-temporal variations and contextual factors of the supply of Airbnb in Rome. An initial investigation. Letters in Spatial and Resource Sciences, 15(2), 237–253. (https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12076-022-00302-y)
Benassi F., Crisci M., Matthews S.A., Rimoldi S.M.L. (2022). Migrants’ Population, Residential Segregation, and Metropolitan Spaces – Insights from the Italian Experience over the Last 20 Years. Migration Letters, 19(3): 287–301. (https://migrationletters.com/index.php/ml/article/view/1795)
Crisci M. (2021), “From mass urbanization to re-urbanization: internal migration and growth phases in Rome (1945-2020)”, in Colucci M., Gallo S. (eds.), 2021 Report on internal migration, il Mulino, Bologna, pp. 59-80.
Crisci M. (2021) Migration and urban transformation in Rome from the mid-nineteenth century to the end of the liberal age (1850-1920), Giornale di storia, 35, pp. 1-19. ISSN 2036-4938.
Crisci M., (2021), Governing the re-urbanization of Rome, Rivista il Mulino, December 20, 2021.
Baioni M., Crisci M. (2021), From Rome to the Tiber Valley: has a long cycle of residential sprawl come to an end? An analysis of registry transfers over the last twenty years, U3-UrbanisticaTre, May, pp. 1-7. ISSN 1973-9702.
Benassi F., Crisci M., Rimoldi S. (2021), Location quotient as a local index of residential segregation. Theoretical and applied aspects, Rivista Italiana di Economia Demografia e Statistica, 76/1, pp. 1-13. ISSN 0035-6832.
Celata F., Coppola A., Crisci M., Diletti M., Puccini E., Semi G. (2020), Let’s overturn the city, Micromega, July, pp. 27-38.
Canepari E., Crisci M. (eds.) (2019) Moving Around in Town. Practises, Pathways and Contexts of Intra-Urban Mobility from 1600 to the Present Day, Viella, Roma, pp. 1-242, ISBN 9788867287666.
Canepari E., Crisci M. (2019), “Moving in Town: Residential and Daily Mobility between Past and Present”, in Canepari E. & Crisci M. (eds.), Moving Around in Town. Practises, Pathways and Contexts of Intra-Urban Mobility from 1600 to the Present Day, Viella, Roma, pp. 7-19, ISBN 9788867287666.
Crisci M., Santacroce A. (2019), “Rome after Sprawl: a Return to the Compact City?”, in Canepari E. & Crisci M. (eds.), Moving Around in Town. Practises, Pathways and Contexts of Intra-Urban Mobility from 1600 to the Present Day, Viella, Roma, pp. 63-79, ISBN 9788867287666.
Crisci M., Buonomo A., Caruso M.G. (2019), “The new faces of the Italian family: recent dynamics and evolutionary aspects”, in Rivista delle Politiche sociali, no. 4, 71-95.
Crisci M., Protasi M.R. (2019), “Immigration in Rome from 1970 to the present”, in Sanfilippo M. (ed.) Bridge of dialogues. Immigration in Rome and Lazio, CSER Studi emigrazione, Year LVI, no. 216, Rome, pp. 682-698.
Crisci M., Morettini L., Archibugi D. (2019), “The demographic structure of Italian researchers: how is generational turnover progressing?”, in National Research Council, Report on research and innovation in Italy, Second Edition, October, pp. 81-122.
Crisci M., Lucciarini S. (eds.) (2019), Governing Inequalities. Inclusion and Exclusion Processes in the Mediterranean Area, from National to City Levels, Aracne, Roma, pp. 1-288.
Bonifazi C., Crisci M. (2018), “Rome and the recent reality of foreign immigration”, in Diritto@Storia, no. 16. ISSN 1825-0300.
Crisci M., Lucciarini S. (2018), “D’une précarisation à l’autre. Mobilité résidentielle et politiques du logement à Rome”, in E. Canepari, C. Regnard (a cura di), Les logements de la mobility (XVIIe-XXIe siècle), éditions Karthala, Aix-en-Provence, 163-181. ISBN 978-2-8111-2517-2.
Crisci M. (2018), “The end of sprawl in Rome? The capital towards a new phase of urban development”, in A. Coppola, G. Punziano (eds.) Rome in transition. Government, strategies, metabolisms and life frameworks of a metropolis, Planum, Rome, 59-70.
Crisci M. (2018), “The slowdown of residential sprawl in the Rome area: a phenomenon to be governed”, in E. d’Albergo, D. De Leo (eds.), Urban policies for Rome. The challenges of a weak capital, Sapienza University Press, Rome, 37-46. ISBN 978-88-9377-050-7.
Crisci M., Lucciarini S. (2018), “Transformations urbaines, développement local et cohésion sociale”, in E.Canepari, B.Marin, L.Salmieri (cur.), Gli entroterra delle città di mare/ Les arrière des villes de mer, L’Harmattan Italia, Torino-Paris, 172-186. ISBN (Italia) 978-88-7892-351-5 / ISBN (France) 978-2-336-31234-7.
Crisci M. (2017), “Temporary labor migration from the South to the Center-North”, in Bonifazi C. (ed.), Migration and integration in today’s Italy, CNR-IRPPS e-Publishing, Rome, 101-116. ISBN 978-88-98822-10-2.
Ciullo A., Viglione A., Castellarin A., Crisci M., Di Baldassarre G. (2017), “Socio-hydrological modelling of flood-risk dynamics: comparing the resilience of green and technological systems”, in Hydrological Sciences Journal, 62, 6, 880-891. ISSN 0262-6667.
Di Baldassarre G., Saccà S., Aronica G.T., Grimaldi S., Ciullo A., Crisci M. (2017), “Human-flood interactions in Rome over the past 150 years”, in Advances in Geosciences, 44, 9-13. ISSN 1680-7340.
Crisci M., Di Tanna B. (2016), “Flexible Mobility for Unstable Workers: South-North Temporary Migration in Italy” in Polis, XXX, 2, 181-210. ISSN 1120-9488.
Crisci M. (2016), “Migration and urban transformation. Rome 1870-2015”, in Colucci M., Gallo S. (eds.) 2016 Report on internal migration in Italy, Donzelli Editore, 47-69. ISBN 978-88-6843-541-7.
Crisci M. (2016), “Urban sprawl and demographic dynamics of the Rome area”, in Urban@it 2016 Cities Report, Background papers, WP, 2, 1-11. ISSN 2465-2059.
Crisci M. (ed.) (2015), Temporary labor mobility. The case of Molise, Cosmo Iannone Editore, Campobasso, 1-239. ISBN 978-88-516-0145-4.
Bonifazi C., Crisci M., Marini C., Sanmartin A. (2014), “The Balkans and the EU: recent trends of a Mediterranean migration”, in South-East European Journal of Political Science, vol.II, n.3, July-September, 110-125. ISSN 2286-4547.
Bertino S., Casacchia O., Crisci M. (2014), “Stochastic Population Projections: an Application to the Rome Metropolitan Area” in Marsili M., Capacci R. (eds.) Proceedings of the Sixth Eurostat/UNECE Work Session on Demographic Projections, Istat, Roma, 216-229. ISBN: 978-88-458-1810-3.
Crisci M., Gemmiti R., Proietti E., Violante A. (2014), Urban sprawl and shrinking cities. Urban transformation and population redistribution in Italian metropolitan areas, CNR-IRPPS Monographs, 1-143. ISBN 978-88-98822-07-2.
Bonifazi C., Crisci M. (2013), “Demography, Migration and the Economy at a Regional Level: Recent Evidence from Catalonia” in Applied Spatial Analysis and Policy, Volume 6, Issue 3, September, 229-249. ISSN 1874-4621.
Crisci M. (2012), “Population and territory: urban systems of commuting and residential mobility as spaces of daily life” in Argomenti. Rivista di economy, cultura e ricerca sociale, no. 34, Franco Angeli, Milan, pp. 81-102. ISSN 1971-8357.
Sonnino E., Bertino S., Casacchia O., Crisci M., D’Orio G., Rosati R. (2011), Population and demographic forecasts in the municipalities of Rome Capital. Current dynamics and prospects until 2024, Gangemi Editore, Rome, 1-256. ISBN: 978-88-492-2216-6.
Crisci M. (2010), Italians and foreigners in urban space. Population dynamics in Rome, Franco Angeli, Milan, 1-216. ISBN 978-88-56-81759-1.
