The emergency centre, which will be housed in an old railway site in the north of Paris, aims to replace the makeshift camps that keep springing up around the city.
Hidalgo, who had announced in May that the camp would be created, said asylum-seekers would be allowed to stay there for "five to 10 days" and would receive medical and psychological care.
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Hidalgo, a Socialist, said the 6.5-million-euro ($7.2 million) Paris centre aimed to take asylum-seekers off the streets while they wait for a place in a refugee hostel.
The announcement comes as yet another makeshift camp housing several hundred people in northern Paris was dismantled by police this morning.
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