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  • This house, as the athlete, would accept the offer and move to the new country.

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    You are an athlete who has been identified as having huge potential in a sport. Unfortunately, you are a citizen of a country that cannot provide the training and facilities you'd need to achieve your potential. Another country has offered you the training and facilities that could make you an Olympian, and potentially an Olympic Champion. The only condition is that you must renounce your current citizenship and become a citizen of the new country.

    Junior Fall HST 2023 · Elimination · 2023-12-01

  • This house, as Paddington, would attempt to return to Peru.

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    It is 1956. You are a young bear named Paddington living in an expensive home in Central London with a loving family called the Browns. The Browns feed you your favourite foods everyday, shelter you from kidnappers, have given you clothes, and have enrolled you in school. You specifically get on with all three of the children in the household. You had initially come to London from the jungles in Peru in search of an explorer that your Aunt Lucy had told you about, but you did not find him. Your Aunt and Uncle bears are the only family you have ever known, and you have been unable to contact them for over a year.

    Edinburgh Juniors · Silver Finals · 2023-11-04

  • This house as this athlete would accept this offer and move to the country

    Infoslide

    You are an athlete who has been identified as having huge potential in your sport. Unfortunately, you are a citizen of a country that cannot afford to provide the training and facilities you'd need to achieve your potential. Another country has offered you the training and facilities that could make you an Olympian, and potentially an Olympic Champion. The only condition is that you must renounce your current citizenship and become a citizen of this new country

    20th BDC-IUBAT Pre Worlds 2023 · Round 6 · 2023-10-12

  • This House Opposes all ‘golden visa’ programs

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    A "golden visa" offers investors the chance to get a residency permit for a country by purchasing real estate or making a large investment or donation.

    Transpacific World Schools Debating Championship · Round 1 · 2023-10-06

  • This House Opposes all ‘golden visa’ programs

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    A "golden visa" offers investors the chance to get a residency permit for a country by purchasing real estate or making a large investment or donation.

    Transpacific World Schools Debating Championship · Round 3 · 2023-10-06

  • This house believes that progressive media should focus on "success stories" of immigrants, rather than instances of their exclusion, suffering, or vulnerabilities.

    14th CNLU Parliamentary Debate 2023 · Round 5 · 2023-09-22

  • This house believes that cases of labor abuse involving migrant workers should be tried in the worker's home country rather than the state of residence

    National Asians High School Debate Championship 2023 · Octofinals · 2023-08-31

  • This house believes that ASEAN should allow free movement of labour within the bloc.

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    ASEAN is a political and economic union of 10 member states in Southeast Asia. ‘Free movement of labour’ means that workers are entitled to work in another country without requiring any visa or work permits and protected from discrimination based on their nationality. ASEAN currently only allows free movement labour for certain skilled workers on a temporary basis.

    RCL PD 2023 · Round 3 · 2023-08-25

  • Given the opportunity, This House, as a talented young individual living in Bulgaria, would emigrate to pursue a career in Western Europe

    Black Sea European Universites Debating Championships 2023 · Round 1 · 2023-08-21

  • This house believes that states facing population decline should prioritize combatting this decline (e.g., by encouraging immigration and providing benefits for having children) rather than adapting to it (e.g., by transitioning away from labor-heavy industries and relocating people away from abandoned areas).

    Queen's Summer Highschool Open 2023 · Round 5 · 2023-08-11

  • This house, as a state with aging population, would opt for policies that increase immigration (e.g, more visas, more social benefits to work migrants) rather than ones that encourage citizens to have more children (e.g. tax benefits, increased childcare).

    Rahat Fundraiser Parliamentary Debate 2023 · Round 3 · 2023-08-04

  • This house as a state with an ageing population would opt for policies that increase immigration (e.g. giving out more visas) rather than ones that encourage citizens to have more children (e.g. offering tax benefits to families that have children)

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    Population ageing refers to an increase in a mean and median age of a country's population caused by an increase in life expectancy and a reduction in birth rates. As a result an increasingly larger portion of the country's population is comprised of the elderly, while the proportion of children and young adults are declining.

    Asia Novice Debate Open (ANDO) 2023 · Quarter Finals · 2023-08-04

  • This house believes that Western liberal democracies should accept immigrants through sortition and not by determining factors such as wages, education and language skills.

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    Sortition is the process or action of selecting or determining something by the casting or drawing of lots.

    North Luzon Online Debates 2023 · Round 5 · 2023-07-23

  • That, as Japan's Liberal Democratic Party, we would introduce policies that significantly encourage foreign migration to Japan. [Japan]

    Krabi Australasian Intervarsity Debating Championships 2023 · Semifinals · 2023-07-01

  • That, as Japan's Liberal Democratic Party, we would introduce policies that significantly encourage foreign migration to Japan. [Japan]

    Krabi Australasian Intervarsity Debating Championships 2023 · ESL Semifinals · 2023-07-01