Because of the poor living conditions in one of the overcrowded refugee centers in Austria, the country is planning to send off hundreds of people to neighboring Slovakia, in a move that has been criticized as “asylum dumping” and a “disgusting horror.”
The plan of the Austrian Ministry of the Interior is to send some 500 refugees to Slovakia because of the overcrowded conditions at Traiskirchen processing center. The sanctuary, currently housing around 3,200 people, lacks approximately 900 beds for people to sleep in. From the outset Traiskirchen was not designed to accommodate more than 480 people, Austria’s The Local reports.
The migration of refuges will start this month and continue through to September. Those transferred are to be housed in university dorms in the Slovakian town of Gabcikovo. The first 50 people are expected to be moved to Slovakia this month, another 200 in August, and a further 250 in September.
The agreement is projected to last two years between the two neighboring states and is scheduled to be signed within the next few days. However, the ministry stressed the relocation would only shift responsibility for taking care of the refugees. The asylum application processing is to continue to be carried out by Austrian authorities. Once awarded asylum, refugees will return to live in Austria. Full story...
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The plan of the Austrian Ministry of the Interior is to send some 500 refugees to Slovakia because of the overcrowded conditions at Traiskirchen processing center. The sanctuary, currently housing around 3,200 people, lacks approximately 900 beds for people to sleep in. From the outset Traiskirchen was not designed to accommodate more than 480 people, Austria’s The Local reports.
The migration of refuges will start this month and continue through to September. Those transferred are to be housed in university dorms in the Slovakian town of Gabcikovo. The first 50 people are expected to be moved to Slovakia this month, another 200 in August, and a further 250 in September.
The agreement is projected to last two years between the two neighboring states and is scheduled to be signed within the next few days. However, the ministry stressed the relocation would only shift responsibility for taking care of the refugees. The asylum application processing is to continue to be carried out by Austrian authorities. Once awarded asylum, refugees will return to live in Austria. Full story...
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