Upon lived experience on Balkan refugee and migration route author identifies some theoretical dilemmas that appear in so-called refugee crisis and proposes some conceptual tools for analysis and intervention. The clash between movement of refugees and migrants on the one hand and European border and migration regime on the other highlights the role of the state of exception in contemporary forms of government, new meanings of racism in relation to hierarchies proper to nowadays capitalism, inadequacy of objectivist understanding of migration and necessity to grasp refugee and migrant subjectivity and new forms of political engagement on the border, such that are affective and capable of creating common beyond rigid identities.
