Marta Paradés Martín (*1986) Spain, studied Social Work and Sociology (B.A,) as well as Democracy and Governance (M.A.) in Madrid and Seville, Spain, and is currently a PhD student in the Department of Political Science and International Relations at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. She works as researcher in projects sponsored by the Community of Madrid ("The new citizens: participation and political representation of immigrants") and by the Ministry of Science and Innovation (“Conflict and consensus in parliament. The case of Spain of the autonomies’). Furthermore, she is a member of the research group Democracy and Autonomy, Society and Politics.