Originally established in 2015, the intention of the hotspots was to coordinate receiving, identifying, and registering refugees on the external borders of the EU.[1][2][3]
In some facilities, people are first identified through personal information by law enforcement personnel, also collecting other data including fingerprints and photos.[4]
Locations
As of 2022, there were five hotspot camps in Greece, on the islands of Chios, Kos, Leros, Lesvos and Samos off the Turkish coast, and five in southern Italy, in Lampedusa, Messina, Pozzallo, Taranto and Trapani.[1][5][6][7]
Alessandra Sciurba, "Categorizing migrants by undermining the right to asylum. The implementation of the 'hotspot approach' in Sicily", Etnografia e ricerca qualitativa10:1:97-120 (January-April 2017) doi:10.3240/86889full text
Notes
12Maria Margarita Mentzelopoulou; Katrien Luyten (June 2018). "Hotspots at EU external borders"(PDF). European Parliamentary Research Service PE 623.563.
