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File Name | S21-Policy-NCFCA-03-AFF-ReceptionBenchmarks-1.docx |
File Size | 416.69 KB |
Date added | August 17, 2020 |
Category | Archived |
Tags | Debate, NCFCA, Policy, Season 21 |
Capacity for housing immigrants and refugees is a perennial problem in the European Union. The root cause of much of the problem is inaccurate or unknown information about reception (initial housing and care) capacity for incoming migrants.
Regardless of whether their claims are good or bad, regardless of how many immigrants or refugees Europe should accept, when they show up at the border, a European government has to do “something” to feed and house them until they can figure out what to do with them. They can’t let them freeze or starve to death or dump them back into the ocean. That interim period while immigrants are in “reception” facilities is the focus of this plan. Bad conditions and inadequate capacity in these reception facilities is directly caused by the fact that there are no EU-wide benchmarks that define what an adequate reception capacity is and how many they have.
Countries may have incentives to make up, exaggerate, or fudge numbers on the size of their immigrant reception capacity, for several reasons. They might falsely exaggerate their capacity in order to make it sound like they’re “doing their fair share” compared to other EU countries (but when the refugees arrive, they end up in the streets or in tents, because the reception beds don’t really exist). They might falsely reduce their stated capacity to make it sound like they just can’t take any more refugees, giving them an excuse to ship them off to some other EU country and avoid the expense of housing them. Other countries may simply use different or erroneous standards for measuring their capacity – for example, counting an unsanitary unsafe location as reception capacity. Phony or incorrect numbers create or exacerbate the problem of inadequate and unsafe conditions for refugees.
The EU needs accurate numbers to properly plan and care for migrants, and this plan establishes a policy to get them those numbers.