On 15 September 2015, Hungary started to close off its southern border for refugees, predominantly from Syria, Iraq, and Afghanistan. The corridor along the so-called Western Balkan route (Frontex, 2024) was then redirected through Croatia and later through Slovenia (Šelo Šabić & Borić, 2016, 2). While observing the border closures for the refugees from the Global South, several media outlets in Slovenia, Croatia, and Serbia juxtaposed such responses with the memories of the fully open border policy that Austria and Yugoslavia presumably had for refugees from Hungary in 1956 and 1957. These media outlets commented on how those refugees had been received in a humanitarian manner and with hospitality, and how Hungary was not extending the same welcome to the people in need of international refugee protection in 2015 and 2016.