The doctoral dissertation is conceptualized as an essayistic, ethnographic reflection on the irregularised everyday life of the contemporary European migration regime characterized by the normalization of violence, the criminalization of people on the move and pro-migrant solidarity, as well as the reflection on the layered, volunteer-research positioning, both within the academic regime and the migration regime through an engaged approach and active participation in social processes. In the first part, I reflect on the mobilization impulses of media content from the (kitchen) perspective of the politics of emotions, and about everyday pro or anti-migrant positioning. The mobilization impulses are followed to the Roma settlement in the neighborhood, on Zagreb's Savica. Experience of cooperation with the inhabitants of the ghettoized settlement within the framework of non-institutional, artistic project aimed at creation of new social bonds between the settlement and city structures leads me to humanitarian formats that, in the process of cooperation, imposed themselves as part of wider social engagement. Humanitarian formats I perceive as compromising because they perpetuate asymmetric power relations, but in the long term, also enable "entry" into the everyday life of the settlement, which is a prerequisite for more subversive, participatory social formats with the potential for social micro change. The second part of the dissertation is based on field research in Una-Sana canton of Bosnia and Herzegovina, conducted by active participation in the work of the international, pro-migrant volunteer collective. During 2020, in the period of the global COVID-19 pandemic, cantonal anti-migrant policies (mimicking anti-pandemic measures) became radicalized. In the same time, on the Croatian side of the border, police violence was increasing. The criminalization of people on the move and solidarity practices influenced the formation of a humanitarian underground opposed to the official part of the cantonal humanitarian regime. Volunteers were forced to carry out the daily distribution of humanitarian aid to people on the move who lived in squats outside the official camps, in clandestine actions during the night. The migration regime I approach autoethnographically, from the perspective of daily interactions between volunteers and people on the move. Volunteer-research positions, identities and forms of cooperation familiar from the Roma settlement, are getting more complicated in the border area. The ethnography of the everyday life of the migration regime I approach through the analysis of the audiovisual works I have produced in different contexts during the research process. The first example is a video report created through a virtual meeting (video call) with hunger strikers stuck at the site of burned Lipa camp in the first days of 2021. My second example is a video diary form created by spontaneous video recordings of a dinner with friends in a squat on the outskirts of Bihać in the winter of the same year. Those two diametrically opposed events (the drama of the hunger strike in the camp versus the lightness of the party in the squat) are two faces of the same everyday level of the regime of irregular migration on the periphery of the EU marked by the normalization of violence and racism, the criminalization of people on the move and pro migrant solidarity, and produced by cooperation and negotiation between heterogeneous actors. I have approached videos as media forms independent of the text, but at the same time as material which, when translated into the text medium, becomes the basis of a tick description and subsequent theoretical interpretation of the events in which I spontaneously participated as one of the actors. With the analysis of the process of its production, but also of the reportage as a finished product, I open questions related to the ethics of the representation of people in the move, as well as a number of other theoretical and methodological questions that I encountered in the process (some of them are: the process of building trust with interlocutors, shared responsibility, unpredictable modes of participation). The context of the production of the second video work is a diary recording of an event that is diametrically opposed to the situation in the first video (the drama of the hunger strike versus the lightness of the party with friends), and the video itself is an attempt at ethnographic representation that deviates from the dominant audiovisual discourse about migrations and typical media representations of people on the move.