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For Newly Arrived Migrants, Paris Offers An Upgraded Welcome

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Paris has opened a refugee camp that is different from other such camps. It's designed to give migrants dignity and to help facilitate their path in applying for asylum². As NPR's Eleanor Beardsley reports, the new camp is now home to men who had been living in bad conditions on the streets of the city.

ELEANOR BEARDSLEY, BYLINE³: The bank of 50 washing machines and dryers⁴ humming away is just one of the welcome signs in this new Paris camp. Next to the washing facilities is a clothing depository where volunteers give newly-arrived migrants sweaters and coats.

UNIDENTIFIED MAN #1: We're going to have a lot of shoes.

SADIQUE ULA MALAGZAI: (Unintelligible).

BEARDSLEY: One worker is trying to fit Afghan Sadique Ula Malagzai with shoes. The young man wears a flip-flop on one foot and a puffy white bandage on the other. Malagzai walked to Paris from Italy.

MALAGZAI: I am walking. The shoe is hurting me. And when I lose shoes, my foot is injured.

BEARDSLEY: And did you get good care here? How is this place?

MALAGZAI: It is good. The people are so polite, and they respect us. We are happy here.

BEARDSLEY: And how long will you stay here?

MALAGZAI: Forever.

BEARDSLEY: The city of Paris, the French state and humanitarian⁵ groups came together to build the facility, which they call a welcome center, not a refugee camp. It's located in an unused industrial site in the north of the city and can shelter up to 600 single men. Patrick Vieillescazes is with the Paris police department, which is also involved. He says the center is a response to the thousands of migrants who've been coming to the French capital from places like Sudan, Eritrea and Afghanistan.

PATRICK VIEILLESCAZES: Basically, the situation in Paris was that we were facing elicit⁶ camps on street level.

BEARDSLEY: Vieillescazes says police regularly cleared the camps away, sending the migrants to centers around France where their cases were then dealt with. He says the goal of this center is to reverse that order. It gives migrants a place to go from the moment they arrive and allows authorities to better regulate the asylum system.

VIEILLESCAZES: It's not a refugee camp. It's the first gate in the system. It's not only a shelter, a home. It's also a way to enter the system.

BEARDSLEY: More than 22,000 migrants have come to Paris over the last year. New arrivals will now be welcomed here in a thousand-square-meter heated tent, where they get a cup of coffee and an interview. There is a medical unit on site, showers, TV rooms, meals and insulated wooden cabins for four people.

UNIDENTIFIED MAN #3: Shokran, shokran - in there.

BEARDSLEY: So we're visiting a room in this new camp. It's warm.

Ah, it's your room?

ALI MOSA: Yeah. My name Ali Mosa. Sudan, Chad, Nigeria, Djair (ph), Libya, Italia...

BEARDSLEY: It took Sudanese migrant Ali Moosa six months to get to Paris, and he hopes to find a job here. Vieillescazes says that could be a problem because the center is part of a national asylum system, and migrants can only stay at this facility 10 days before they must move to one of 250 permanent centers somewhere else in France.

VIEILLESCAZES: We have to explain to them that if they don't want to accept the place we propose, we can't shelter them here. That's the rule. Otherwise, it can't work.

BEARDSLEY: Running the center costs about $45 per migrant per day. A hundred and twenty employees and 500 volunteers keep the operation going. Bruno Morel is with Emmaus, the humanitarian organization that runs the center.

BRUNO MOREL: (Speaking French).

BEARDSLEY: "In the street, you're struggling to survive," he says, "so you can't possibly do what you need to restart your life. And you're prey⁷ for smugglers and traffickers." In January, the city plans to open a second center for the more vulnerable women and children asylum seekers, and there are plans to include a school on the site. Eleanor Beardsley, NPR News, Paris.

1 browser   

n.浏览者

参考例句：

• View edits in a web browser.在浏览器中看编辑的效果。
• I think my browser has a list of shareware links.我想在浏览器中会有一系列的共享软件链接。

2 asylum   

n.避难所，庇护所，避难

参考例句：

• The people ask for political asylum.人们请求政治避难。
• Having sought asylum in the West for many years,they were eventually granted it.他们最终获得了在西方寻求多年的避难权。

3 byline   

n.署名；v.署名

参考例句：

• His byline was absent as well.他的署名也不见了。
• We wish to thank the author of this article which carries no byline.我们要感谢这篇文章的那位没有署名的作者。

4 dryers   

n.干燥机( dryer的名词复数 )；干燥器；干燥剂；干燥工

参考例句：

• Men also have hair dryers and, if they suffer from baldness, they use a growth stimulator, buy hairpieces, or have hair transplanted from the hirsute part of the scalp to the bare areas. 男士也有他们的吹风机，而且如果他们秃顶的话，还会用毛发生长剂、买假发，或者把头发从密集的地方移植到谢顶的地方。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• The dryers can be automated. 干燥机可以自动化作业。 来自辞典例句

5 humanitarian   

n.人道主义者，博爱者，基督凡人论者

参考例句：

• She has many humanitarian interests and contributes a lot to them.她拥有很多慈善事业，并作了很大的贡献。
• The British government has now suspended humanitarian aid to the area.英国政府现已暂停对这一地区的人道主义援助。

6 elicit   

v.引出,抽出,引起

参考例句：

• It was designed to elicit the best thinking within the government. 机构的设置是为了在政府内部集思广益。
• Don't try to elicit business secrets from me. I won't tell you anything. 你休想从我这里套问出我们的商业机密, 我什么都不会告诉你的。

7 prey   

n.被掠食者，牺牲者，掠食；v.捕食，掠夺，折磨

参考例句：

• Stronger animals prey on weaker ones.弱肉强食。
• The lion was hunting for its prey.狮子在寻找猎物。