Hoping for a better life Immigration Flashcards

(100 cards)

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un étranger

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a foreigner

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un inconnu

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a stranger

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la nationalité

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nationality

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un ressortissant étranger

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a foreign national

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les personnes de nationalité française

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French citizens

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émigrer en nouvelle Zélande

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to emigrate to New Zealand

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immigrer en France

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to immigrate to France

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une vague d’immigration

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a wave of immigration

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immigration à grande échelle

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large-scale immigration

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un exode

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an exodus

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un nouvel arrivant

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a newcomer

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pays natal

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native country

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pays d’origine

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home country

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la patrie

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homeland

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un pays d’accueil

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a host country

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un pays d’adoption

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an adoptive country

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accueillir

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to welcome

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accueillant

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welcoming

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la politique migratoire

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immigration policy

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immigration choisie

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selective immigration

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les flux migratoires

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migration flows

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un passager clandestin

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a stowaway

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l’immigration clandestine

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illegal immigration

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l’immigration sauvage

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uncontrolled immigration

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un immigrant clandestin
an illegal immigrant
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il est en situation irrégulière
his papers are not in order
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une frontière
a border / a frontier
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fermer ses frontière
to close one's borders
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les contrôles aux frontières
border controls
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les controles d'identité
identity checks
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un centre de rétention
a holding centre / a detention facility
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un passeport
a passport
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une carte d'identité
an identity card
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un visa
a visa
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un réfugié
a refugee
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une personne déplacée
a displaced person
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un apatride (=)
a stateless person
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se réfugier
to take refuge
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demander l'asile politique
to seek political asylum
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un demandeur d'asile
an asylum-seeker
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fuir la persécution / la misère
to flee persecution / destitution
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échapper à la pauvreté
to escape poverty
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chercher de meilleures conditions de vie
to be in search of better living conditions
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le trafic des êtres humains
human trafficking
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un contrebandier / un passeur
a smuggler
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les passeurs d'immigrants clandestins
people-smugglers
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un réseau de passeur
a smuggling ring
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un faux passeport
a fake passport
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reconduire qqun à la frontière
to escort sb back to the border
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renvoyer un immigrant dans son pays d'origine
to send an immigrant back to his native country
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être refoulé à la frontière
to be turned away at the border
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être expulsé
to ber ordered out of the country
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s'exiler
to go into exile
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un exilé
an exile
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exiler qqn
to exil
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s'expatrier
to expatriate oneself
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un expatrié
an expatriate
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passer à l'ouest/ à l'ennemi
to defect to the west / to the enemy
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fuite des cerveau / afflux des cerveaux
brain drain / brain gain
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partir de rien
to start from scratch
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le travail au noir
moonlighting
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un atelier clandestin
a sweatshop
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exploiter les travailleurs immigrés
to exploit migrant workers
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un permis de travail, une carte de travail
a work permit
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un permis de séjour
a residence permit
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un travailleur migrant
a migrant worker
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un travailleur invité
a guest worker
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s'intégrer
to become integrated
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bien s'intégrer dans une socité
to integrate well into a society
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l'insertion sociale
social integration
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régulariser la situation des clandestins
to regularize the status of illegal immigrants
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la régularisation
regularization
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se faire naturaliser britannique
to be granted British citizenship
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un quota
a quota
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le regroupement familial
family reunion
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qq qui abuse du système des prestations sociales
a benefit cheat
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la fraude aux prestations sociales
benefit fraud
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un parasite
freeloader
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un mariage blanc
a marriage of convenience
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inonder
to flood
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être envahi par les étrangers
to be swamped with foreigners
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l'arriver massive / l'afflux de travailleurs
the influx of workers
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endiguer l'afflux d'immigrés
to stem the flow of immigrants
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limiter l'immigration
to restrict immigration
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un parti d'extrême droite
a far right party
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faire fuir les immigrants
to scare immigrants away
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empêcher les indésirables d'entrer
to keep out undesirables
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la xénophobie
xenophobia
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xénophobe
xenophobic
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des immigrés de deuxième génération
second-generation immigrants
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avoir un grand père né à l'étranger
to have a foreign-born grandfather
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des jeunes gens d'orgine asiatique / portugaise
young men of Asian / portuguese descent
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un français de naissance
a native of France
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un NY de souche
a born and bred New Yorker
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il est français de souche
he's of French origin
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le Maghreb
North Africa
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les Maghrébins
North Africans
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pakistanais/du Bangladesh
Pakistani / Bangladeshi
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hispanophone / parlant le hindi
Spanish-speaking / Hindi - speaking
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diaspora
diaspora