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Abstract A video animation serves to characterise the mobilities and processes around the arrival of refugees at a border checkpoint. The municipality of Nickelsdorf (province of „Burgenland“) and the refugee arrivals in fall 2015 serve as field. The authors consider borders neither as simple thresholds nor as ramparts, but as socio-political places that de-mobilize or accelerate transit and sustained movement. The refugees’/migrants’ routes in the Balkans coincide with the biographical mobilities of the bus drivers who transport the arriving people, traffickers are in connivance with customs officers, and infrastructures in proximity of borders boost or collapse in accordance with the changing border regimes. Transnational networks continue to operate in spite of routes and borders that are politically declared as being “closed”. Video https://vimeo.com/196291205 Keywords Mobilities; trafficking; border regimes; check points; border crossing strategies Mobilitätserfahrungen und Grenz-Infrastruktur Bus-Stop Nickelsdorf 2015, eine Bestandsaufnahme Michael Hieslmair und Michael Zinganel Mobile Culture Studies. The Journal, Vol. 2 2016, 157-164 Editor reviewed article Open Access: content is licensed under CC BY 3.0