CED - Center for Demographic Studies

Fernanda Fortes De Lena

ORCID 0000-0001-6325-6685 'Juan de la Cierva' Research Fellow

Educational qualifications: Ph.D in Demography (Universidade de Campinas)
Research Theme/s: Social Stratification

I am an economist and demographer whose research focuses on sexual minorities, family formation, and internal migration in the Global South. I hold a PhD in Demography from the University of Campinas (2022), where I explored internal migration trajectories of sexual minorities in Brazil. Currently I am a Juan de la Cierva Postdoctoral Fellow at the Centre for Demographic Studies (CED) in Barcelona, and have contributed to the ERC-funded project “Sexual Minorities and Inequality of Opportunity” (MINEQ). My work integrates quantitative analysis of census and registry data with qualitative, life-course approaches to study social and spatial inequalities. I also regularly collaborate on international projects (World Bank, Demographic Health Survey and Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics) concerning survey design, sexual orientation measurement, and LGBTQ+ inclusion.

2025

de Lena, Fernanda Fortes, i Diederik Boertien. 2025. «A Marriage Premium for Whom? Sexual Identity, Relationship Status and Earnings». Journal of Marriage and Family n/a(n/a). doi:10.1111/jomf.70005. I.F.: SJR_2024_Q1_Social Sciences (miscellaneous)_1.609

2024

Fortes de Lena, Fernanda. 2024. «‘Their opinion counts as far as you let it’- understanding queer migration in Minas Gerais, Brazil». Gender, Place & Culture 0(0):1-22. doi: 10.1080/0966369X.2023.2298790.
I.F.: SJR_2024_Q1_Demography_0.720

2022

FORTES de LENA, Fernanda (2022) “From urban to highly urban: Internal migration patterns of sexual minorities in Brazil”. Population, Space and Place, 28 (8), e2575 (ISSN: 1544-8444). https://doi.org/10.1002/psp.2575
I.F.: JCR (SSCI)_2021_Q2_Geography, i.i. 2.630
SJR_2021_Q1_Demography, i.i. 1.111

WIMARK, Thomas; FORTES DE LENA, Fernanda (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 (2), e2507: 1-13 (eISSN: 1544-8452). https://doi.org/10.1002/psp.2507 I.F.:
JCR (SSCI)_2020_Q1_Demography, i.i. 3.814
SJR_2020_Q1_Demography, i.i. 1.398

2015

FORTES DE LENA, Fernanda; OLIVEIRA , Ana M.H.C. (2015) “Padrões de seletividade relacionados aos casais homossexuais e heterossexuais no Brasil” (“Assortative mating related to heterosexual and homosexual couples in Brazil”). Revista Brasileira de Estudos de Populaçao, 32 (1): 121-137 (ISSN: 0102-3098). https://doi.org/10.1590/S0102-30982015000000007 I.F.: SJR_2015_Q2_Demography, i.i. 0.257