Fernanda Fortes de Lena

Postdoctoral researcher
Centre for Demographic Studies

ffortes@ced.uab.es

Field of Study: Demography, Economics, Geography, Sociology
 
Specialization: Families and Households, Gender Roles-Differentials, Household and Housing, Internal Migration, Marriage, Divorce and Consensual Unions
 
Regional focus: Latin America and the Caribbean, Western Europe
 
Education: Doctorate (Ph.D, or MD), Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP), Demography, 2022
 
Working languages: English
Portuguese (Brazil), Spanish
 
Other association membership in population or related fields: Latin American Population Association (ALAP), Population Association of America (PAA)
Associação Brasileira de Estudos de População


Professional web page:
http://https://www.linkedin.com/in/fernanda-lena-30715122/  
 
Professional Summary:

I am an economist and demographer with research focused on sexual minorities related to family formation and internal migration in the Global South. My interests are related to social and spatial inequalities of sexual minorities. I have experience in applying quantitative methods using census and registry data as well as qualitative methods using a life course approach. I received my PhD in Demography from the University of Campinas (2022). I am currently working as a postdoctoral resercher in the project “Sexual Minorities and Inequality of Opportunity”, ERC Starting Grant; Ref.: ERC-2020-STG-948557-MINEQ. 

 

Publications:

Fortes de Lena, F. (2022). From urban to highly urban: Internal migration patterns of sexual minorities in Brazil. Population, Space and Place, 28, e2575. https://doi.org/10.1002/psp.2575 Fortes de Lena, F. (2022). Estabelecendo uma agenda de pesquisa em sexualidade e migração nos estudos demográficos: o que emerge da revisão de literatura. Revista Brasileira De Estudos De População, 39, 1–29. https://doi.org/10.20947/S0102-3098a0222
Wimark, T., & Fortes De Lena, F. (2022). Same-sex marriage and neighbourhood landscape overlap—A revised understanding of the spatial distribution of gay men and lesbians. Population, Space and Place, 28, e2507. https://doi.org/10.1002/psp.2507

LENA,F.F., OLIVEIRA , A. M. H. C.. Assortative mating related to heterosexual and homosexual couples in Brazil. R. bras. Est. Pop., Rio de Janeiro, v. 32, n.1.. p.121-137, jan./abr. 2015. https://doi.org/10.1590/S0102-30982015000000007