Joan Miró is postdoctoral researcher at Department of Social and Political Sciences of the University of Milan. He holds a PhD in Political Science from the Autonomous University of Barcelona. His research interests include comparative social policy, discourse analysis, international political economy and EU integration theory. He has recently published in international peer-reviewed journals, such as Constellations, Socio-Economic Review, Social Politics (with Marga León, Antonino Sorrenti and Emmanuele Pavolini), Distinktion and Review of International Political Economy.