[Recenzja: David Fernández-Rojo, EU Migration Agencies : The Operation and Cooperation of Frontex, EASO, and Europol, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham 2021, 272 s., ISBN 978-1-83910-933-1]

Migration and Society 2021, t. 5, s. 158-160.

The publication of David Fernández-Rojo's book is very timely, as it offers an excellent review of the emergence of EU migration agencies with a special focus on the influence and aftermath of the so-called 2015–2016 refugee crisis. As we are on the verge of a reform of the EU's migration policy, the volume also sheds some light on the shortcomings of the current institutional approach and the limitations of the legal foundations on which the agencies were built, especially when evaluated vis-à-vis the practice on the ground and tasks and operations conducted by agencies’ representatives at the EU borders, in hotspots in particular. This broad picture encourages the reader to ask several questions about the current and future position of migration agencies in the EU.