I mean, technically, they aren't concentration camps because as far as I understand those are just places to dump the caught and deported unwanted people. They aren't being kept there forcefully, no?

[–] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml 13 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

I have no idea if your comment is sarcastic or not, but those aren't only concentration camps, they are outsourced concentration camps:

Return hubs are a euphemism for deportation centers that would be set up in non-EU countries.

The EU plans to deport rejected asylum seekers to these "return hubs" until they can be deported back to their countries of origin.

[–] GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip 1 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (1 children)

It was meant as a sincere question with a cynical undertone. Dumping "unwanteds" is obviously horrible, but I understood part of the definition of concentration camp to be a place where people of disrepute with the authoritarians in power are interred for various hideous purposes. Not a place where people are deported to, and are then free to leave (except in the direction they were just brought from).

[–] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml 2 points 15 hours ago

definition of concentration camp to be a place where people of disrepute with the authoritarians in power are interred for various hideous purposes.

I mean that checks out. EU countries barely if even have any kind of democratic mandate, a lot of real power in EU is held by bureocrats with little or zero accountability to peoples of Europe, and i would say that kicking out the refugees asking for asylum back to countries which are devastated/exploited in large part by Europeans, and where they would most likely face at least crushing poverty and at worst oppresion by regimes (Syria is pretty huge case) is pretty fucking hideous.