Don't go. It is illegal for you to go," the Serbian police tell us. "You are not refugees." We are standing beside an abandoned railway line in Kanjize, a small village on the Serbia-Hungary border. It's been years since a train rumbled through this town but in the past month the tracks have become a symbolic, well-worn path for thousands of refugees trekking to Europe in search of a better life.
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