Glossary
The EMN Glossary – as one of the key products of the EMN - improves comparability by enabling a common understanding and use of terms and definitions relating to asylum and migration. The Glossary draws on a variety of sources, but primarily on the legislation of the EU asylum and immigration acquis, and makes terms available in the majority of EU Member State languages.
The online version is regularly updated and available in various languages.
- BG: приемателен център
- CZ: přijímací středisko
- DE: Aufnahmeeinrichtung
- EE: vastuvõtukeskus
- EN: reception centre
- ES: centro de acogida
- FI: vastaanottokeskus
- FR: centre d’accueil (pour demandeurs d’asile)
- GA: ionad fáiltithe
- HU: befogadó állomás
- IT: centro di accoglienza per richiedenti asilo
- LT: priėmimo centras
- LV: uzņemšanas centrs
- MT: Ċentru ta’ akkoljenza (għal min jitlob l-ażil)
- NL: asielzoekerscentrum
- NO: transittmottak
- PL: ośrodek recepcyjny
- PT: centro de acolhimento
- RO: centru de cazare şi proceduri
- SE: mottagning
- SK: prijímacie zariadenie (EU acquis) / záchytný tábor (national law)
- SL: nastanitveni center / sprejemni center
A location with facilities for receiving, processing and attending to the immediate needs of refugees or asylum seekers as they arrive in a country of asylum.
For more information on categories of reception centres available in EU Member States, see EMN: the Organisation of Reception Facilities for Asylum Seekers in different Member States.