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2008 CONFERENCE ON MIGRANT CHILDREN

Children and Migration: identities, mobilities and belonging(s)

9-11th April 2008

Venue: University College Cork , Ireland

Conference Registration

Please note that the final date for registration is 29/02/2008.

Please note it will NOT be possible to refund registration fee to delegates who withdraw after March 14th.

A registration form for Migrant Children: Identities, Mobilities and Belonging(s) is available here.

A preliminary conference programme is available here.

A detailed draft conference timetable including papers and speakers is available here.

Registration forms are to be completed and posted to Noreen McDowell/Suzanne O’Sullivan, Geography Department, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland.

There are two methods by which payment can be made:

  1. Bank draft or cheque

Delegates can pay the fee by sending, with their registration form, an international bank draft (in euros), or, for delegates from within Ireland, a cheque drawn on a Republic of Ireland bank account. The bank draft or cheque should be made payable to University College Cork.

  1. Direct bank transfer

Delegates can transfer their fees directly.  The details are as follows:

Account Number: 37867548
NSC: 90-27-68
Bank: Bank of Ireland, 32 South Mall, Cork, Republic of Ireland
IBAN No: IE90 BOFI 9027 6837 8675 48
SWIFT/BIC No: BOFIIE2D
Beneficiary: University College Cork

It is very important that anyone using this option puts 500-110-4463 as the Reference on the transfer. Without this reference number, the payment may not be recorded.

If making payment by bank transfer, please ensure that bank charges are not deducted from the Conference Fee amount.

Unfortunately UCC is not able to process payment by credit card.

 

Please note the conference rates vary according to delegates' employment status and country of usual residency.

Conference Rates

 

'Earlybird' Rates

(before 8/2/2008)

Late Registration Rates

(after 8/2/2008)

Full delegate rate
90 euro 110 euro
Postgraduate/unwaged
70 euro 85 euro
Delegates from low/middle income countries
70 euro 85 euro

Please note that the final date for registration is 29/02/2008

There will be a conference dinner on Thursday April 10th in the Weir Reseraunt, Jurys Hotel, Cork. The full cost of this meal (minus drinks) will be 32 euros.

For details about the (limited number of) bursaries for unwaged, postgraduates and contract researchers, please click here

The conference is using World Bank definitions of low and middle income countries. Click here for more details. Click here to download this list.

The World Bank defines the following as low and middle-income economies. Delegates usually resident in these countries will pay a reduced conference fee.

Low-income economies
Afghanistan India Rwanda
Bangladesh Kenya São Tomé and Principe
Benin Korea, Dem Rep. Senegal
Burkina Faso Kyrgyz Republic Sierra Leone
Burundi Lao PDR Solomon Islands
Cambodia Liberia Somalia
Central African Republic Madagascar Sudan
Chad Malawi Tajikistan
Comoros Mali Tanzania
Congo, Dem. Rep Mauritania Timor-Leste
Côte d'Ivoire Mongolia Togo
Eritrea Mozambique Uganda
Ethiopia Myanmar Uzbekistan
Gambia, The Nepal Vietnam
Ghana Niger Yemen, Rep.
Guinea Nigeria Zambia
Guinea-Bissau Pakistan Zimbabwe
Haiti Papua New Guinea  

Middle-income economies
Albania Guatemala Paraguay
Algeria Guyana Peru
Angola Honduras Philippines
American Samoa Hungary Poland
Argentina Indonesia Romania
Armenia Iran, Islamic Rep. Russian Federation
Azerbaijan Iraq Samoa
Belarus Jamaica Serbia
Belize Jordan Seychelles
Bhutan Kazakhstan Slovak Republic
Bolivia Latvia South Africa
Bosnia and Herzegovina Lebanon Sri Lanka
Botswana Lesoto St. Kitts and Nevis
Brazil Macedonia, FYR St. Lucia
Bulgaria Malaysia St. Vincent and Grenadines
Chile Maldives Suriname
Colombia Marshall Islands Swaziland
Costa Rica Mauritius Syrian Arab Republic
Croatia Mayotte Thailand
Djibouti Micronesia, Fed. Sts. Tonga
Dominica Moldova Tunisia
Dominican Republic Montenegro Turkey
Ecuador Morocco Turkmenistan
Equatorial Guinea Northern Mariana Islands Ukraine
Egypt, Arab Rep. Namibia Uruguay
El Salvador Nicaragua Vanuatu
Fiji Palau Venezuela, RB
Gabon Georgia Panama West Bank and Gaza
Grenada Oman

Many thanks,

The Marie Curie Migrant Children Research Team.

 

 

 

 

 

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