ALAN TAYLOR
On October 17, Hungary closed its border with Croatia, blocking thousands of refugees still traveling from Mediterranean landing points to central and northern European countries, forcing thousands to shift their routes. An estimated 58,000 migrants and refugees heading to Germany and Austria have arrived in Slovenia over the last week alone. The smaller Balkan countries are still straining to cope with the influx of refugees, as they have most of this year. Colder weather has started making the journey even more difficult, as men, women, and children from war-torn and impoverished regions of the Middle East and Africa continue their journey north.
Migrants are escorted by police as they walk from the village of Rigonce, Slovenia to a refugee camp in Brežice on October 23, 2015. Thousands of migrants marched across the border between Croatia into Slovenia as authorities intensified their efforts to attempt to cope with Europe's largest migration of people since World War II. #
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Migrants move through fields after crossing into Rigonce from Croatia, on October 25, 2015. Thousands of people are trying to reach central and northern Europe via the Balkans, but often have to wait for days in mud and rain at the Serbian, Croatian and Slovenian borders. #
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On October 24, 2015, people crowd a tent in Berkasovo, Serbia, as they wait to cross Serbia's border with Croatia. #
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In Rigonce, Slovenia, migrants are escorted by police toward a holding camp in the village of Dobova on October 26, 2015. #
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Migrants walk through a field in Ključ Brdovečki, Croatia, on the Slovenian border, on October 23, 2015. On Friday, Croatian police escorted another group of some 1,500 refugees and migrants close to an unmanned section of the country's border with Slovenia before letting them cross the frontier on foot. #
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In this aerial view photo, a migrants reception facility is seen in Brežice, Slovenia, on October 26, 2015. #
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In Brežice, Slovenia, a group of migrants move near a police dog after crossing from Croatia, on October 19, 2015. #
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Migrants look through a fence as they wait to cross the Slovenia-Austrian border in Spielfeld, Austria, on October 22, 2015. Thousands of people wait to cross the border at Spielfeld to continue further to Austria and Germany. #
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A humanitarian volunteer tries to help migrants as they wait to cross the border with Croatia, near the village of Berkasovo, Serbia, on October 23, 2015. #
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A migrant on a wheelchair protects himself from the rain near the Serbian-Croatian border crossing, near the village of Berkasovo, Serbia, on October 19, 2015. Thousands of migrants clamored to enter European Union member Croatia from Serbia on Monday after a night spent in the cold and mud of no-man's land, their passage west slowed by a Slovenian effort to impose limits on the flow to western Europe. #
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A child sleeps as migrants wait at the Serbian-Croatian border crossing near the village of Berkasovo, Serbia, on October 19, 2015. #
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In Spielfeld, Austria, migrants prepare for cold night at a camp at a border with Slovenia on October 22, 2015. #
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A photograph of a child lies discarded amid trash close to Serbia's border with Croatia, in Berkasovo, Serbia, on October 25, 2015. #
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A group of people walks towards Serbia's border with Croatia in Berkasovo, Serbia, on October 24, 2015. #
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A child stands in tears as migrants wait in a field near the border crossing between Serbia and Croatia on October 20, 2015, near the village of Berkasovo in Serbia. #
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A man carries children while walking in a field near the border between Serbia and Croatia, near the village of Berkasovo, Serbia, on October 20, 2015. #
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Croatian police officers stand guard as migrants enter Croatia from Serbia, near the village of Babska, Croatia, on October 21, 2015. #
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A mounted policeman leads a group of migrants near Dobova, Slovenia, on October 20, 2015. #
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Migrants move through a field after crossing from Croatia, in Rigonce, Slovenia, on October 25, 2015. #
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In Bapska, Croatia, migrants rest their feet after crossing the border from Serbia on October 20, 2015. #
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A Slovenian police officer gives instructions as migrants and refugees wait to cross the Croatia-Slovenia border on October 19, 2015 in Trnovec. #
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Akram, from Herat, Afghanistan, shows a picture of his friends on their journey to Europe as he waits to cross the Slovenia-Austria border in Sentilj, Slovenia, on October 25, 2015. #
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Hungarian soldiers set up a razor wire fence on the Slovenian-Hungarian border in Pince, Slovenia, on September 25, 2015. #
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In Rigonce, Slovenia, migrants are escorted by police through fields towards a holding camp in the village of Dobova on October 26, 2015. #
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A woman from Syria waits to cross the border with Croatia near the village of Berkasovo, Serbia, on October 21, 2015. #
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Migrants try to keep themselves warm by a bonfire as they wait to cross the border with Croatia near the village of Berkasovo, Serbia, on October 21, 2015. #
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A migrant child stands beside others inside a tent as they wait to cross the border with Croatia near the village of Berkasovo, Serbia, on October 16, 2015. #
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Migrants walk to the border with Hungary after arriving by train at Botovo, Croatia, on October 16, 2015. #
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A boy crosses the Serbian-Croatian border along with other migrants and refugees on October 24, 2015, in Berkasovo. #
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A migrant man gestures while carrying a child in his arms, as migrants are escorted by police towards buses which will take them to a Brežice refugee camp on October 26, 2015 in Rigonce, Slovenia. #
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Migrants walk towards the Austrian border after resting in a makeshift camp in the village of Sentilj, Slovenia, on October 24, 2015. #
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A migrant woman wrapped in a thermal blanket carries a child as she walks through a field to cross the border with Croatia near the village of Berkasovo, Serbia, on October 21, 2015. #
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