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Four years ago, Lampedusa鈥檚 bulging migrant reception centre became an EU 鈥渉otspot鈥� 鈥� a quick turn-around facility which would register, finger print and identify all asylum seekers who arrived on the island before transferring them to centres on the mainland, where they would wait for their claims to be processed.

Meanwhile, the populist Italian deputy Prime Minister, Matteo Salvini, has been closing some of the big reception centres on the mainland, making it more difficult to transfer migrants.

Emma Jane Kirby, who was on the island when the hotspot was first opened, has returned to find out what migrants arriving in Lampedusa today, can expect.

(Photo: Capsized migrants swimming Credit: Getty Images)