How Hamburg is trying to cope with the influx:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-34448779
And still they come. All this is great but it seems to me unlikely that these migrants will happily remain cooped up in such accommodation when they had such high hopes (quite probably unrealistic) of a new life in Germany. The more who come, the greater the pressure, the less resources there are to go around and the more people will become frustrated and angry that things haven't turned out quite how they'd hoped as quickly as they'd like. What's effectively happening here is the creation of ghettos and whilst they're supposed to be temporary, who's doing what to slow, let alone stop the increasing flow of migrants?
You can have every sympathy in the world for these poor people and as much admiration as you like for the efforts being made to accommodate them but we all know that it can't carry on like this. Once you have large numbers of desperate people grouped together some of who will be granted asylum and others who won't, things are going to get very nasty. Nobody's just going to volunteer to go back home are they. Even if jobs and services can be provided to these people how much resentment will that have created in the minds of Germany's existing poor and struggling which will include migrants who've been there for years and who are still struggling? How much resentment will it create in the longer term when these new migrant communities rightly or wrongly form the conclusion that they're in Germany not to build a better life but to provide cheap labour and do all the dirty jobs? How will they feel when large numbers of them haven't made it to the top of the tree and skilled people have been left languishing in low skilled, low paid jobs with little or no hope of anything better. In the UK we're still seeing the legacy of similar problems dating back to the 1950's when large numbers of immigrants were attracted to the UK on the basis of jobs and a better life and many of them still feel they've not really been accepted or empowered to achieve their full potential in society. It wasn't thought through then and it isn't being thought through now, the main difference is that the people involved are far more desperate, diverse and numerous. One of the biggest problems here is managing the expectations of the migrants who're coming and who can blame them for choosing to believe the best not the worst?...
The lack of foresight and/or level of denial evident is quite astonishing and the potential for huge social unrest and political turmoil is huge.