Zastavka u Brna's original capacity was 250 people, but around 300 refugees are now housed there. Despite official statistics pointing to a slight dip in the flow of migrants caught at the border this year, camp administrator Josef Wagner says asylum-seekers keep pouring in. When refugees are first detained by Czech border police or come forward on their own to make an asylum request, they are sent to one of three camps where their applications are processed and they undergo a three-week medical quarantine. The Czech asylum procedure can often last more than a year, with opportunities for appeal. That means refugees spend months at camps such as Zastavka u Brna, with little to occupy them.
Younger children fare better.
Czech lessons are offered and as soon as refugee children pick up basic language skills, they are integrated into the local school. The camp's art studio also offers a way to pass the time. Here we've got a press, which you can't see on the radio, a little graphic corner. Next door, we are doing pottery. We're working with a potter s wheel, trying to make some clay objects.