21 November 2019
"Overcrowded, open camps that have become home to 33,000 asylum seekers on five Aegean islands are to be shut down and replaced with closed centres."
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Greece migrant crisis: 'Horrible' camps to shut amid influx (BBC News, link):
"Four or five new sites will be set up to house 1,000 to 5,000 people. (...)
The proposed sites are being described as "closed pre-departure centres""
See also: Migration plan foresees new restrictive facilities on islands, closure of Moria camp (ekathimerini.com, link)
Comment: It appears that the current free movement of refugees on the islands after registration will end and they will be locked in the new detention centres until their return to Turkey has breen agreed.
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