CLIMATE ROUTES
Specifically, the project intends to:
extend and innovate research on environmental and climate migrations through the analysis of disaggregated and qualitative data collected directly from migrants, helping to build a knowledge base on the current situation, adopting field research methods, such as observation, questionnaires and interviews, as well as resorting to artistic tools of cultural mediation;
promote the possibility of filling the definitional and normative gap in the field of environmental and climate migration, through legal advice and assistance also in pilot strategic judgments, in order to stimulate, first of all in the jurisprudence, a definition of environmental and climate migrant that can be generally shared and participated in, to which protection for people migrating for reasons (also or mainly) related to the consequences of the ongoing climate change and crisis can be linked;
stimulate attention and debate in the public opinion and among policy-makers through dissemination and awareness-raising activities; fostering a culture of care, active listening and protection of environmental and climate migrants in public and private operators in the sector and accompanying them in developing new services in this field.
The innovativeness of the project consists in:
I) researching and asking for these data right from the source, from the migrant himself with the collaboration of the operators in the sector;
II) finding creative and inclusive ways to valorise and narrate these data, also in order to develop new strategies of judicial protection.
Finally, the project activity and its results will be narrated creatively, in public, free and accessible spaces, in order to raise awareness and generate empowerment towards a complex and urgent issue.
LEGAL AID DESK
Systasis, in the framework of the project ‘Climate Routes’, has planned and launched the first legal desk for environmental and climate migrants.
The service will be provided, by the Association and the project partners, at Systasis, in Milan and online, for the benefit of individuals, associations and migrants’ reception centres.
Advice will also be offered on the possibility of strategic and pilot litigation in favour of people forced to move and abandon their land, including for environmental and climatic reasons.
The creator and coordinator of the desk is lawyer Veronica Dini, coordinator of the project.