ABSTRACT
The aim is to provide an ethnographic description of what actually had happened in this liminal stage on the Serbian southern border crossing during the long summer of migration. I argue that this period was plunged into chaos which through dramatic non-linear, abrupt and often contradictory developments of law and civil society and law enforcement responses to the influx of migrants brought about a new border regime in South-eastern Europe. The chapter shows how in the liminal period of the refugee crisis the changes in migrants' management have left a mark on the ground and how these changes were integrated into ordinary modes of conduct during the period when the new border regime was incorporated.
