Ekathimerini | 19.10.2017
As dozens of migrants continue to land daily on the shores of eastern Aegean islands, and tensions rise in reception centers, local communities are becoming increasingly divided over growing migrant populations.
A total of 438 people arrived on the islands aboard smuggling boats from Turkey in the first three days of the week, with another 175 people arriving on the islet of Oinousses yesterday morning.
The latter were transferred to a center on nearby Chios which is very cramped with 1,600 people living in facilities designed to host 850.
The situation is worse on Samos, where a reception center designed to host 700 people is accommodating 2,850.