The environmental migration hub, within the DREAM research area, is intended to be a place of discovery, deepening and discussion on environmental migration and the impacts that climatic-environmental factors have on the rights, vulnerabilities and opportunities of individuals and on their possible decision to migrate elsewhere. Seminars, conferences and other events promote conversation and mutual exchange on these issues at both national and international levels. 

Projects

• “Le rotte del clima. Crisi climatica e migrazioni: diritti in azione” - Italy's first research and advocacy project on environmental and climate migration. The project, coordinated by Centro Studi Systasis and funded by Fondazione Cariplo, will study environmental migration from a multidisciplinary perspective in order to identify appropriate protection tools for those fleeing slow- and rapid-onset disasters, environmental degradation and other climate factors. The team of the Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna will be responsible for organizing two training modules aimed at providing in-depth knowledge on the environmental causes of migration, the protection tools available at the international, European and national levels, and the use of COI to identify these causes. Recipients of these modules include members of Territorial Commissions, judges, lawyers and reception center workers. In addition, the research team will analyze case law relevant to the analysis of environmental causes of migration in order to help build targeted and innovative strategies for action.

Latest events 

• International Conference "Environmental migration under the spotlight. Legal and policy responses, individual and collective dimensions of a global phenomenon”. 
  The aim of the conference (30-31 May 2022) is to discuss about still largely unexplored topics linked to environmental migration. National and international speakers will analyse environmental migration from multiple, innovative, perspectives (law, policy, religion, anthropology, evolutionist theory) with particular emphasis on gender, the rights of minors, and vulnerability. 
• Winter School on Environmental Migration in International Legal and Policy Frameworks
  Organized jointly by the Institute for Migration Studies at the School of Arts & Sciences at the Lebanese American University - LAU and the DREAM Research Area of the DIRPOLIS Institute at the Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna (Feb 28 - Mar 4, 2022, morning sections only). See the program here.
• February 3, 2022, Environmental Migration at the International Level: What’s There, What’s Not, and What’s Needed?
  The Institute for Migration Studies (IMS) at Lebanese American University's School of Arts and Sciences and the DREAM Research Area of the DIRPOLIS Institute at Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies invite you to join the first webinar of the IMS Series “Movement and Safety” to frame Environmental Migration within international legal frameworks, and outline how this strand of migration can be discussed across broader themes and definitions. These topics will be discussed by Chiara Scissa, PhD student at Sant'Anna School and by Jasmin Lilian Diab, IMS Director. 
• 17 December 2021, h. 16-18 (Classroom 6, Headquarters and via webex)
  Quali standard di protezione per le migrazioni ambientali? Alcune riflessioni a partire dalla recente giurisprudenza (sovra)nazionale.
  Introduced and moderated by Chiara Scissa, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna
  Speakers: Susanna Villani, University of Bologna, and Anna Brambilla, ASGI lawyer. Watch the video (in Italian).