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It's a far cry from the chaotic British system, where many migrants are picked up off beaches and placed in random hotels, B&Bs and hostels.
This new purpose-built facility on the Greek island of Samos has the capacity to house 3,000 asylum seekers in clean, safe, container-style accommodation units.
On site, there are seven basketball courts, three playgrounds, a football pitch and eight canteen-style restaurants, as well as the air-conditioned living quarters.
Those who arrive on Samos from north Africa and the Middle East are free to come and go from the centre which is just a stone’s throw from the clear blue Aegean Sea.
The gates will be open from 8am to 8pm, with a bus running to and from the main town four times a day.
A purpose-built £37million facility (pictured) on the Greek island of Samos has the capacity to hold 3,000 asylum seekers with basketball courts and playgrounds site as well as container-style accommodation units
Six years after a million Syrians fleeing civil war crossed the country en route to mainland Europe, the camp is being presented as a ‘swifter and fairer’ means of processing asylum seekers than the current jumble of ad-hoc solutions.
The £37million facility has not received universal praise however, with some criticising it as ‘prison-like’ because of its high fences and watchtowers along the perimeter.
But it is a far more humane destination than the dangerous and insanitary conditions
