security and safety for the residents and personnel".[69] Moreover, the "new facilities and services will ensure adequate living conditions for all groups of residents and dignified reception conditions".[70] Contradictory claims to "care and control" are not new to the European bordering apparatus: and thus, the deprivation of liberty and prison-like conditions within the CCAC are another example of unlawful, disproportionate and dehumanising measures dismissed using the language of humanitarianism. These measures are explored below. © Sam Jubb [69] Directorate-General for Migration and Home Affairs. 2021. Opening of the first new reception centre on Samos. EU Migration and Home Affairs. Available here. [70] Ibid. Page 18