Concluded Projets
- The State Building and State Failure Debate in International Relations: The Case of East Timor
- Selected Bibliographies
- Macao - A Revolving Platform between the PRC and Portuguese-speaking Africa
- Analysis and Monitoring of the Transition of the Special Administrative Region of Macao
- An Administration for Timor Lorosae
- Development Factors in the Pearl River Delta: Spatial Integration and Systemic Coherence
- Barometer of Business Relations between China and Portuguese-Countries: An Economic, Commercial and Cultural Approach
- Crisis and Migratory Policies: New Mobility Regimes Created by Golden Visa
Crisis and Migratory Policies: New Mobility Regimes Created by Golden Visa
(2016-2017)
Research team
Maria de Fátima Calça Amante, PhD
Irene Rodrigues, PhD
External Consultants
Frank Pieke, PhD
Doris Wastl-Walter, PhD
Research Group
Since October 2012, in the turmoil of debt financial crisis, Portugal has created a new program of Residence permit in order to attract investment from third countries nationals: Golden Visa Program which assigns residence visa and, in the long run, allows Portuguese citizenship for investors. Having the concept of regimes of mobility (Schiller and Salazar, 2013) as starting point we propose to analyze the ways by which a new residence permit regime influence the development of Portuguese migratory policies as well as migratory flows themselves. This is a first exploratory project on the topic and as such it aims to map the economical, juridical, political, ideological and statistical outlines of the phenomenon. The specific goals of the project are:
(1) Program Description and analysis in legal terms taking into account the changes and the effects produced by them;
(2) Description and analysis of economic, political and ideological context of the financial crisis in its relation to the Program;
(3) Analysis and interpretation of statistical data from the first four years of the Program comparing with migration statistical data not covered by the Program.
During this first stage of the project there will also be conducted exploratory interviews with institutional actors directly or indirectly involved in the Program.