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Maria Koinova has written a piece, titled 'Why Erdoğan is chasing Turkey’s overseas voters so hard,' for The Conversation.

The article can be read here: https://theconversation.com/why-erdogan-is-chasing-turkeys-overseas-voters-so-hard-74469

Juanita Elias and Shirin Rai have published a piece in The Conversation that considers how the £2 bn made available in the Spring budget for adult social care might be spent.

Read the article here: https://theconversation.com/here-is-whats-needed-to-kickstart-a-fairer-social-care-system-75037

This article draws upon research conducted by the PSA Commission on Care which reported in November 2016. Full details of the Commisions work can be found at www.commissiononcare.org

Dr. Maria Koinova will this week speak at a high profile policy event on “Global Diaspora Mobilization” at the University of Warwick Brussels Office.

The global refugee crisis brings pressing concerns how to manage refugees on the move and deal with fragile sending states in conflict and disarray. While such concerns take the limelight, long-term effects of refugee and large-scale migration movements remain in the shadow. Over time refugees may return home, but many will remain in their new destinations, or move on to others, and eventually turn into conflict-generated diasporas with durable links to their original homelands. ​

Conflict-generated diasporas can be a source of economic development, but also of further conflict from afar, and engage in a variety of long-distance practices. Lessons learned from experiences of previous refugee waves, their diaspora engagement, and the management of large-scale migration, including fragile and developing states, can inform meaningful policies towards refugees and migrants today.

The seminar seeks to enhance the conversation between academics and policy-makers in European institutions by focusing on lessons learned from diaspora mobilisations and their management, and to bring their implications for policy areas such as: conflict and security, state-building, economic and social development, migration governance, transitional justice and democratisation.

The event will also highlight the links between the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and human mobility that needs to be understood more comprehensively to support and leverage different types of diaspora populations and link integration policies in countries of settlement with the transnational activities of mobile populations.

The event, takes place on Tuesday 28th March. For more details, and to register, please see: http://cdn.flxml.eu/r-0f785137d0e4bf0627dc5b97e804a8a93ec6f29b0b059ec1

This week the Hallsworth Conference on China and the Changing Global Order was held in Manchester on Thursday 23rd and Friday 24th March. Organized by Catherine Jones, André Broome, Matthias Kranke, and Pablo Rodríguez-Merino from PAIS in collaboration with Shogo Suzuki from the School of Social Sciences at the University of Manchester, the conference brought together 60 delegates from over 15 countries around the world to discuss new research papers from a range of disciplinary sub-fields across International Relations and International Political Economy. The conference discussions focused on critical questions such as how China’s rise is changing the global order, whether China’s visions for global order represent a viable alternative mode of global governance, and how more Sino-centric global governance institutions will shape international power relations.

Plenary speakers at the conference included: Professor Kerry Brown, King's College London; Dr Lai-Ha Chan, University of Technology Sydney and Princeton University; Professor Rosemary Foot, University of Oxford; Dr Yang Jiang, Danish Institute for International Studies; Professor Katherine Morton, University of Sheffield; Professor Edward Newman, University of Leeds; Professor John Ravenhill, Balsillie School of International Affairs; and Professor Yongjin Zhang, University of Bristol.

A selection of research papers that were presented at the conference will be published online later this year in the Hallsworth China Forum, a special collection within the CSGR Working Paper Series.

Further information: www.warwick.ac.uk/Hallsworth-China-Conference

Together with Dr Nicolette Butler from the University of Manchester and Zoltán Massay-Kosubek from the European Public Health Alliance (whose staff also provided excellent support), Dr Gabriel Siles-Brügge recently co-organised an event on Brexit, trade and health, also moderating one of its sessions 'Post-Brexit Trade and Investment Policy'. The event was funded through an ESRC IAA from the University of Manchester.

The purpose of the event was to refocus the discussion of Brexit, often couched very narrow legal and economic terms, around the impact that a new economic arrangement will have on public health.

The event featured leading academics and prominent policy practitioners, including the Head of the NHS Confederation Office in Brussels (Elisabetta Zanon) and Irish MEP Marian Harkin (ALDE).

For more information about the event and speakers, see the event webpage (https://epha.org/brexit-trade-and-health/) or look up the Twitter hashtag #BrexitHealth.

Together with Dr Butler, Dr Siles-Brügge is a Scientific Advisor to EPHA on trade and investment issues.