Research Institute on Population and Social Policies

Massimiliano Crisci

Senior Researcher at CNR-IRPPS. He is a demographer and is responsible for the research activity "Populations and migrations”, where he deals with international migration, residential mobility and settlement models in urban areas with particular interest.

Rome

massimiliano.crisci@irpps.cnr.it

+39 06 492724 244

Information

He is a demographer and deals with the interpretation of the main socio-demographic phenomena and the study of population structures and dynamics at a regional and local level, with a particular interest in residential mobility and urban settlement models.

His research interests are mainly focused on territorial mobility, with the aim of addressing, with interdisciplinary tools and quantitative and qualitative methods, the study of different types of mobility by reason, duration and range of travel, evaluating the complementary elements and the impact on the departure and arrival societies.

The forms of mobility considered are above all: the international migration; the internal migrations, especially the temporary migrations for work; theurban sprawl o urban spread; the intra-urban home transfers; the commuting for work and study purposes.

THEmetropolitan area of ​​Rome it represents a privileged area of ​​analysis with respect to the study of mobility phenomena, demographic evolution, settlement patterns of residents (Italians and foreigners), as well as carrying out population forecasts at the provincial, municipal and municipal level.

He has participated in numerous research projects at national and international level and is the author of monographs and numerous essays and articles in books and scientific journals.

He is coordinator of the CNR-IRPPS research unit within the project Metromosaic “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.

Main publications

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, SML, Menonna, A., Santurro, M. (2024). Residential mobility within the Italian metropolitan areas in the 2000s. A territorial focus on Rome and Milan, in: JM 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, Springersystem. (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. Country, 12(10), 1870. (https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/12/10/1870)

Crisci, M. (2022). The impact of the real estate crisis on a southern European metropolis: from urban diffusion to Reurbanisation. Applied Spatial Analysis and Policy15(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 SA, Rimoldi SML (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), “Dall’urbanizzazione di massa alla riurbanizzazione: migrazioni interne e fasi di crescita a Roma (1945-2020)”, in Colucci M., Gallo S. (a cura di), Rapporto 2021 sulle migrazioni interne, il Mulino, Bologna, pp. 59-80.

Crisci M. (2021) Migrazioni e trasformazione urbana a Roma dalla metà dell’Ottocento alla fine dell’età liberale (1850-1920), Giornale di storia, 35, pp. 1-19. ISSN 2036-4938.

Crisci M., (2021), Governare la riurbanizzazione di Roma, Rivista il Mulino, 20 dicembre 2021.

Baioni M., Crisci M. (2021), Da Roma alla Valle del Tevere: un lungo ciclo di diffusione residenziale è giunto alla fine? Un’analisi dei trasferimenti anagrafici degli ultimi venti anni, U3-UrbanisticaTre, Maggio, 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), Rivoltiamo la città, Micromega, Luglio, 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), “I nuovi volti della famiglia italiana: dinamiche recenti e aspetti evolutivi”, in Rivista delle Politiche sociali, n.4, 71-95.

Crisci M., Protasi M.R. (2019), “L’immigrazione a Roma dal 1970 ad oggi”, in Sanfilippo M. (a cura di) Ponte di dialoghi. L’immigrazione a Roma e nel Lazio, CSER Studi emigrazione, Anno LVI, n.216, Roma, pp.682-698.

Crisci M., Morettini L., Archibugi D. (2019), “La struttura demografica dei ricercatori italiani: come procede il ricambio generazionale?”, in Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Relazione sulla ricerca e l’innovazione in Italia, Seconda Edizione, ottobre, 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), “Roma e la realtà recente dell’immigrazione straniera”, in Diritto@Storia, n.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 mobilité (XVIIe-XXIe siècle), éditions Karthala, Aix-en-Provence, 163-181. ISBN 978-2-8111-2517-2.

Crisci M. (2018), “Fine dello sprawl a Roma? La capitale verso una nuova fase di sviluppo urbano”, in A. Coppola, G. Punziano (a cura di) Roma in transizione. Governo, strategie, metabolismi e quadri di vita di una metropoli, Planum, Roma, 59-70.

Crisci M. (2018), “Il rallentamento della diffusione residenziale nell’area romana: un fenomeno da governare”, in E. d’Albergo, D. De Leo (a cura di), Politiche urbane per Roma. Le sfide di una capitale debole, Sapienza University Press, Roma, 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), “Le migrazioni temporanee per lavoro dal Mezzogiorno al Centro-Nord”, in Bonifazi C. (a cura di), Migrazioni e integrazioni nell’Italia di oggi, CNR-IRPPS e-Publishing, Roma, 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), “Migrazioni e trasformazione urbana. Roma 1870-2015”, in Colucci M., Gallo S. (a cura di) Rapporto 2016 sulle migrazioni interne in Italia, Donzelli Editore, 47-69. ISBN 978-88-6843-541-7.

Crisci M. (2016), “Urban sprawl e dinamiche demografiche dell’area romana”, in Urban@it Rapporto sulle città 2016, Background papers, WP, 2, 1-11. ISSN 2465-2059.

Crisci M. (a cura di) (2015), La mobilità temporanea per lavoro. Il caso molisano, 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 e shrinking cities. Trasformazione urbana e redistribuzione della popolazione nelle aree metropolitane italiane, Monografie CNR-IRPPS, 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), “Popolazione e territorio: sistemi urbani della mobilità pendolare e domiciliare come spazi di vita quotidiana” in Argomenti. Rivista di economia, cultura e ricerca sociale, n.34, Franco Angeli, Milano, p. 81-102. ISSN 1971-8357.

Sonnino E., Bertino S., Casacchia O., Crisci M., D’Orio G., Rosati R. (2011), Popolazione e previsioni demografiche nei municipi di Roma Capitale. Dinamiche attuali e prospettive fino al 2024, Gangemi Editore, Roma, 1-256. ISBN: 978-88-492-2216-6.

Crisci M. (2010), Italiani e stranieri nello spazio urbano. Dinamiche della popolazione di Roma, Franco Angeli, Milano, 1-216. ISBN 978-88-56-81759-1.