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The timely subject matter of this book focuses on the interface between extraterritorial border surveillance and migration management by EU Member States and the rights that asylum seekers acquire from EU law. In particular, Moreno-Lax concentrates on the relationship between the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights and mechanisms of pre-entry control.

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Europe is currently experiencing a "refugee crisis", demonstrated by millions of displaced people unseen since World War II. This book examines the interface between the EU´s response to irregular flows, in particular the main extraterritorial border and migration controls taken by the Member States, and the rights asylum seekers acquire from EU law. "Remote control" techniques, such as the imposition of visas, fines on carriers transporting unsatisfactorily documented third-country nationals, and interception at sea are investigated in detail in a bid to assess the impact these measures have on access to asylum in the EU. The book also thoroughly analyses the rights recognised by the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights to persons in need of international protection, inclusive of the principle of non-refoulement, the right to leave any country
including one´s own, the right to asylum, and the right to remedies and effective judicial protection.
The fundamental focus of the book is the relationship between the aforementioned border and migration controls and the rights of asylum seekers and, most importantly, how these rights (should) limit the scope of such measures and the ways in which they are implemented. The ultimate goal is to conclude whether the current series of extraterritorial mechanisms of pre-entry vetting is compatible in EU law with the EU rights of forced migrants.

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Moreno-Lax has written one of the key texts on EU migration and asylum law for the years to come. Her steady defence of rights as "practical and effective" and "not theoretical and illusory" (p. 477) and, more importantly, the way such defence is conducted through impeccable legal analysis of the instruments adopted by the EU itself, is already having an impact beyond academia and will be at the centre of policy debates in the future. The book is therefore an indispensable title, and essential reading for students, scholars, legal practitioners and judges, aswell as policy makers and EU institutions dealing with borders, immigration, and asylum. Diego Acosta, Common Market Law Review

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Dr. Violeta Moreno-Lax is Senior lecturer in Law, Founding Director of the Immigration Law programme, and inaugural co-Director and co-founder of the Centre for European and International Legal Affairs at Queen Mary University of London. She is also a Visiting Professor at the College of Europe, a Fellow of the Centre of European Law of King´s College London, EU Asylum Law Coordinator at the Refugee Law Initiative of the University of London, Co-Chair of The Refugee
Law Observatory, Co-convener of the Society of Legal Scholars (SLS) Migration Law Section, and member of the Steering Committee of the Migration Law Network. Before Queen Mary, she was a Lecturer in Law at the Universities of Liverpool and Oxford. She held visiting positions at the Universities of
Macquarie and New South Wales, Oxford, Nijmegen, and The Hague Academy of International Law (Research Session 2010). She has published widely in the areas of international and European refugee and migration law.

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