Time to rethink large refugee centres in Europe

The Lancet | Correspondence | 27 October 2020
Author: Alberto Barbieri
As the European Parliament and Council examine the NPMA, it is essential that policy makers learn from past failures. Effective relocation programmes between European countries along with exhaustive and timely asylum application assessments are needed. It is necessary that the EU abandon the Mineo and Moria models and promote policies that favour reception in small-scale facilities, integration into the social environment, provision of appropriate services, and genuine inclusion for the benefit of hosted refugees and the receiving societies.
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