The Long-Term Residence Status as a Subsidiary Form of EU Citizenship

This book studies the implications for third-country nationals of the adoption of the Long-term Residence Directive. This Directive has the potential to become a subsidiary form of EU citizenship which escapes direct control by Member States. Hence, this Directive brings the prospect of transforming Member States’ control over the relationship between territory and population. In order to arrive at this conclusion, the book looks at its content and at the way in which Member States have implemented some of its most controversial articles. It then explores how the Court of Justice could interpret those articles, taking into account its previous jurisprudence on Turkish workers and EU citizens and calling into question the compliance of several national provisions with EU law.

Diego Acosta Arcazo, Ph.D. (2010) in Law, King’s College University London, is Lecturer of Law at the University of Bristol. He has published extensively in the area of European immigration law.

"(...) Acosta Arcazo's book provides a well written and insightful analysis for anyone interested in European migration policy. And some of the author’s predictions have already been vindicated(...)".
Sabina Anne Espinoza, European Law Review (2014) 39, pages 438-441.

“(...) the book is a highly valuable contribution to the literature on EU Migration Law. By providing an in-depth and comparative evaluation (…) the book constitutes an important reference tool for the future interpretation of long-term residence status in the EU. The normative approach combined with a detailed analysis of national legislative provisions makes it a valuable read not only for academics, but also for policy-makers and practitioners, not least EU legislators and judges themselves.”.
Anja Wiesbrock, European Journal of Migration and Law (2013) 15, pages 229-231.