CROATIA. Tovarnik. 2015. Refugees crash through police lines in Tovarnik, Croatia, during the height of the refugee crisis. They had arrived en masse during the pre- vious days when Hungary shut its borders. The Croatian authorities, unsure how to deal with the sudden influx, kept them penned up in a train station in the sweltering late summer heat. Lacking food and water, the refugees protested, ultimately pushing through police lines. The Croatian authorities set up another cordon, but eventually relented and arranged for a fleet of buses to carry them to Zagreb so they could continue their journey to Western Europe. Some Croatian police seemed indifferent to the refugees’ desperation, but others mentioned being refugees themselves as children during the Balkan wars of the early ’90s and extended acts of kindness when they could. The refugees were exhausted and many annoyed with the constant media presence. As the police lines imploded, I was admonished in English several times that the media should stop portraying them as a defenseless, dehumanized horde. Owing to decades of anti-Islam propaganda, many townspeople on the border seemed to regard the refugees with deep suspicion.