Le condizioni di vulnerabilità ambientale tra i «seri motivi di carattere umanitario» in relazione al permesso di soggiorno: prospettive giuridiche della figura dell’eco-migrante (nota a Tribunale di L’Aquila, Ordinanza del 18 febbraio 2018, n. R.G. 1522/17)

Abstract

The Judgment of the Civil Court of L’Aquila of 18 February 2018 gives the opportunity to address the topic concerning the residence permit for humanitarian reasons, before its repeal by the recent Decree-Law no. 113 of 4 October 2018, converted, with amendments, into Law no. 132 of 1 December 2018 (the so-called “Security Decree”).

In this regard, one of the most interesting aspect of the aforementioned Judgment concerns the interpretation of the safeguard clause of «humanitarian serious reasons», which precludes the refusal or the withdrawal of the residence permit for humanitarian reasons.

The Court includes the environmental vulnerability conditions within the legal concept of “humanitarian serious reasons”.

On the basis of that assumption, the paper develops some considerations about the concept of environmental vulnerability and the recognition of environmental migrant as a new legal status.