Because of the poor living conditions in one of the overcrowded refugee centres in Austria, they are planning to send hundreds of people to neighbouring Slovakia, in a move that has been criticised as ‘asylum dumping’ and a ‘disgusting horror.’ The plan of the Austrian Ministry of the Interior is to send 500 refugees to Slovakia because of the overcrowded conditions at Traiskirchen processing centre . The sanctuary currently houses around 3,200 people and lacks 900 beds. From the outset Traiskirchen was not designed to accommodate more than 480 people.The migration of refugees will start this month (July) and continue through to September. Those transferred are to be housed in university dorms in the Slovakian town of Gabcikovo. The first 50 people are to be moved shortly, another 200 in August and 250 in September. The agreement is to last two years. Relocation only shifts responsibility of care to Slovakia; asylum application processing will continue in Austria. Once awarded asylum, refugees will return to live in Austria.