Human Migrations: Climate Change and Other Not-So-Simple Motives. A “Clumsy” Governance Is Necessary

Climate change induced migrations is a highly controversial issue, which diverges popular opinions from academic positions. Scientific and popular positions and related global policies are divergent also on the more general issue of human migrations. In this sense, the issue is a “wicked problem” (Rittel, 1972; Buchanan, 1992), probably resolved only by means of “clumsy solutions” (Verwej et al., 2006). After delineating general features of human migrations, the paper suggests the possibility to adopt a sort of “clumsy” governance, at the global and regional level, more shaped on findings of Cultural Theory, initially developed by anthropologists, political scientists and then implemented by geographers. The suggestion is that to avoid shortcuts in policy making, and accept more fatiguing tools capable of involving people in producing accepted and thus more effective policies for governing human migrations.