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Un immigré, un migrant

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An immigrant / a migrant

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Émigrer en Europe

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To emigrate / to migrate to Europe

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Etre attiré par un pays

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To be attracted to a country

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Un candidat à l’immigration

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A would-be (im)migrant

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Pousser qqn à émigrer

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To push sb to emigrate

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Fuir un pays, un régime

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To flee a country, a regime

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Échapper à la pauvreté

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To escape poverty

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Chercher à fuir la guerre

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To seek refuge from the war

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Demander l’asile politique

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To apply for / to seek political asylum

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Un demandeur d’asile

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An asylum seeker

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Chercher une vie meilleure

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To be in search of a better life

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L’attrait d’emplois bien rémunérés

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The lure of well-paid jobs

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Chercher des salaires plus élevés

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To look for higher wages

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Faire fortune

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To make a fortune

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Rompre avec le passé

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To break with the past

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Partir de rien

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To start from scratch

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Prendre un nouveau départ

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To start anew / to start afresh

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Etre confronté à des difficultés

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To be faced with / to be confronted with difficulties

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Etre exploité

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To be exploited

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Un atelier clandestin

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A sweatshop

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Surmonter les obstacles

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To overcome obstacles

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S’intégrer

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To integrate

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Une politique d’immigration

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An immigration policy

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L’immigration choisie

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Selective immigration

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Fermer ses frontières

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To seal one’s borders

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Gérer l’afflux des réfugiés

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To cope with the influx of refugees

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Imposer des quotas

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To impose quotas

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Etre refoulé à la frontière

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To be turned away at the border

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Etre expulsé d’un pays

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To be expelled from a country

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Renforcer les contrôles aux frontières

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To tighten border controls

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Réprimer l’immigration clandestine

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To crack down on illegal immigration

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Un immigré clandestin

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An illegal immigrant / an illegal alien

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Un passager clandestin

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A stowaway

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Un travailleur immigré

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A guest worker / a migrant worker

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Régulariser les sans-papiers

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To regularize the undocumented

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Un passeur

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A smuggler

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Un faux passeport

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A fake passport

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Les immigrés sont souvent prêts à risquer leur vie car ils sont convaincus qu’ils seront plus heureux ailleurs

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Immigrants are often prepared to risk their lives because they are convinced that the grass is greener on the other side

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Vu le grand nombre de personnes qui veulent à tout prix émigrer en Europe de l’Ouest, les passeurs font fortune

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With so many people desperate to come to Western Europe, the people-smuggling business is booming

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La Méditerranée est devenue l’itinéraire migratoire le plus meurtrier du monde. Des dizaines de milliers de migrants se sont déjà noyés en voulant gagner l’Europe.

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The Mediterranean has become the world’s most lethal migrant route. Tens of thousands of migrants have already drowned en route to Europe.

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La façon dont sont traités les réfugiés dans certains centres de rétention est tout simplement scandaleuse

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The treatment of refugees in some detention centers is simply outrageous

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Chaque jour, environ 4000 personne essaient de franchir clandestinement la frontière américano-mexicaine

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Every day about 4000 people try illegally to cross the US-Mexico border

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On estime à 11 millions le nombre d’immigrés sans papiers qui vivent aux États-Unis

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There are thought to be 11m undocumented migrants living in the US.

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L’Amérique a toujours été considérée comme une terre promise mais ce que les immigrés y trouvent ne correspond pas tjs à leurs attentes

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America has always been looked upon as a promised land but what immigrants find there sometimes falls short of their expectations

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Tous les ans, de nombreux Européens de l’Est essaient d’entrer clandestinement en Grande-Bretagne

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Many East Europeans try to sneak into Britain every year

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Les travailleurs clandestins font souvent le sale boulot qui rebute maintenant de nombreux Européens

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Illegal workers often do the dirty work that many Europeans now shun

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Les économistes britanniques affirment que l’immigration peut contribuer à compenser les conséquences du vieillissement de la population

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British economists argue that immigration can help offset the impact of an ageing population

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Certains disent que les immigrés prennent la place des travailleurs nationaux mais les économistes ont montré que ces craintes n’étaient pas fondées

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Some say that immigrants push native-born workers out of jobs but economists have found that those fears were not justified

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L’immigration restera sans doute un sujet très controversé dans les années à venir

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Immigration is likely to remain a contentious issue in the coming years

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La barrière de la langue

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The language barrier

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