reception center
Arrival processing location
A reception center is a facility where people are initially processed and temporarily housed upon arrival—typically refugees, asylum seekers, migrants, or disaster evacuees.
The center handles intake procedures: registration, health screening, and basic needs before individuals are relocated elsewhere.
Thousands waited at the reception center near the border.
In British usage, also a place where new military recruits report for processing.
- refugee campShelter site for displaced foreigners
- transit campTemporary facility for people moving through
- welcomeHospitable greeting offered
- open armsWelcoming body language
- shelterProtected place or structure
guests · entryway · check-in · lobby · resettlement · hub · emergency shelter · hall · UNHCR · relief worker · aid station · facility · holding facility · safe haven · host country · new arrivals · arrival · sanctuary
- prisoncell block, inmate, jail, prison, prisoner
- prisonsprison, inmates, cells, prisons, prisoner
- detention facilitiesjail, prison, cells, holding cell, inmates
- Refugee Aidrefugee aid, refugee status, refugee policy, resettlement, humanitarian assistance
- refugeesrefugee camps, refugee camp, displaced persons, refugee status, refugee policy
- relief sitesrefugee camp, relief camp, emergency shelter, transit camp, temporary shelter
reception centerpermanent residence
Fixed long-term dwelling
permanent home · private residence · council housing · social housing · forever home
reception centerdeparture lounge
Airport holding space for travelers
exit point · deportation center · point of origin · transit point
reception, center, receive, receiver, received, receiving, receivable, receipt, recipient