Abstract
ABSTRACT The aim of this paper is to contribute to the ongoing discussion on the selective nature of border regimes as well as to the way the global economic crisis affects migratory flows and policies. For this purpose, our analysis focuses on a public policy created to attract a specific migrant profile, the residence permit for investment activity (ARI), aka Golden Visa, created in Portugal in 2012. The Golden Visa Programme assigns residence visas for Third Country Nationals (TCN) who invest a minimum of 500 thousand Euros. Most candidates and recipients of this visa are Chinese nationals. This paper discusses how the Golden Visa Programme changed the profile of the Chinese community in Portugal by critically looking at how it fitted the neoliberal narrative and politics during the period of the financial crisis that hit Portugal in 2011. In so doing, this paper falls within the broader studies of governmentality and management of borders and migratory flows which cross them.
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