Francisco Beltran is a Lecturer in Political Science at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (Barcelona) and Research Fellow at the Institute for European Studies, University of British Columbia (Vancouver). Degrees in Political Science (UNED, Madrid) and Economics (UV, Valencia), MA in Government and Theory of Democracy, and PhD in Political Science (both from the UAM, Madrid). Main fields of research: comparative politics of immigration and integration (EHESS) and the European Research Council (ERC).