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Accessing Asylum in Europe

Extraterritorial Border Controls and Refugee Rights under EU Law

Violeta Moreno-Lax (Queen Mary University of London)

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English
Oxford University Press
17 August 2017
"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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Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 240mm,  Width: 168mm,  Spine: 42mm
Weight:   1g
ISBN:   9780198701002
ISBN 10:   0198701004
Series:   Oxford Studies in European Law
Pages:   620
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Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Primary ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active

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.

Reviews for Accessing Asylum in Europe: Extraterritorial Border Controls and Refugee Rights under EU Law

This book is well written and meticulous, offering brilliant insights into the human rights aspects of the EU's legal regulation of refugee flows. * Tawhida Ahmed, City Law School * This text is a must-read for any scholar, student, or advocate seeking to understand the complexities surrounding asylum and extraterritorial border controls under EU law. * Dr Brid Ni Ghrainne, University of Sheffield * This book will be useful to all those interested in EU asylum law and, in particular, its relationship with the EU's legislation on border management and the combined effect that these two areas of EU law have on the effective realization of the right of refugees to seek asylum. While there is plenty of literature on each of these two separate, but related, areas of EU law, this is the first book to explore their interaction. * Maria-Teresa Gil-Bazo, European Journal of International Law * Violeta Moreno-Lax contributes to the multidisciplinary debate on asylum and refugees by offering a deeper insight into the right to asylum, and particularly into the relationship between the right to receive protection and the mechanisms of border control. * Daniela Irrera, Journal of Common Market Studies * Moreno-Lax shows that it is perfectly possible to construct international and European law in such a manner as to argue that the generalized extraterritorial border control as implemented by European countries at this moment is in violation of international human rights and refugee law. This evidently requires an original and particular interpretation of law. Moreno-Lax convincingly argues that the currently dominant interpretation which denies her conclusion is flawed and internally inconsistent on many levels. The systematic and sustained way in which she does so is an achievement. * Thomas Spijkerboer, European Law Review *


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