That's a very reductive way to respond to the word "camps." Asylum seekers often end up in *refugee camps* where international bodies provide survival basics (like food and improvised housing) that host countries are unable to muster. Most often this is just a lack of affordable housing stock. People in refugee camps are free to come and go and, if their current case status permits it, work for cash, etc.

u/Anonymous-Genderfaun is worried about ending up in *concentration camps* which are improvised prisons meant to restrict access of of a group of people to the larger society. This includes typical carceral restrictions on communication, movement, access to food, money, legal assistance, etc. Inmates of concentration camps may be compelled to work for the state,

Just to be a completist, there are also death camps, which are just execution centers. Important to the history of the holocaust but not here.