Migranti ambientali. Il caso studio dell'alta Murgia

Abstract

From the Dossier Statistico Immigrazione 2022, presented on 27 October, substantial data emerges regarding the new causes of migration. Those are linked to Climate Change: floods, droughts, earthquakes, fires, constitute in fact, according to the research, the first motive of the migratory phenomenon. Also according to the IDMC (Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre), in the last decade natural disasters have been the main cause of migration flows. The number of the so called environmental migrants is continuously growing in our country and will become 220 million in 2050 across the globe, according to the World Bank. The phenomenon of climate change has a different impact on populations depending on the greater vulnerability of the poorer segments; the territorial fragilities belonging to geographical contexts at the limit of survival conditions; and, finally, the physiological conditions in which women, children and the elderly are more exposed. The Call’s proposal will further investigate the theme of Session II: Research in Progress end Emerging Places and Itineraries, with two specific case studies developed on the occasion of two Master’s theses, at the AUIC School of Politecnico di Milano, both placed in the geographical context of the Murge Plateau in Apulia: “Design strategies for the reactivation of the identity of a Mediterranean rural landscape”; “Regeneration of the Jazzi system. Studies of architectural devices for new forms of widespread hospitality in the area”. Those two project applications have, in part, answered to the theme according to a virtuous paradigmatic model. They deal with a process capable of recovering and regenerating the rural spaces of peasant culture in order to assign them to a new vocation and functional programme, such as the training of migrants in the cultivation and care of agricultural fields.