Hoping for a better life Immigration Flashcards

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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

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an illegal immigrant

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il est en situation irrégulière

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his papers are not in order

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une frontière

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a border / a frontier

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fermer ses frontière

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to close one’s borders

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les contrôles aux frontières

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border controls

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les controles d’identité

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identity checks

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un centre de rétention

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a holding centre / a detention facility

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un passeport

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a passport

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33
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une carte d’identité

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an identity card

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34
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un visa

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a visa

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un réfugié

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a refugee

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36
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une personne déplacée

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a displaced person

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37
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un apatride (=)

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a stateless person

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38
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se réfugier

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to take refuge

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39
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demander l’asile politique

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to seek political asylum

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un demandeur d’asile

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an asylum-seeker

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41
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fuir la persécution / la misère

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to flee persecution / destitution

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échapper à la pauvreté

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to escape poverty

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chercher de meilleures conditions de vie

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to be in search of better living conditions

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le trafic des êtres humains

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human trafficking

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un contrebandier / un passeur

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a smuggler

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les passeurs d’immigrants clandestins

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people-smugglers

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un réseau de passeur

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a smuggling ring

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un faux passeport

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a fake passport

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reconduire qqun à la frontière

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to escort sb back to the border

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renvoyer un immigrant dans son pays d’origine

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to send an immigrant back to his native country

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être refoulé à la frontière

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to be turned away at the border

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être expulsé

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to ber ordered out of the country

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s’exiler

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to go into exile

54
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un exilé

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an exile

55
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exiler qqn

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to exil

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s’expatrier

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to expatriate oneself

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un expatrié

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an expatriate

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passer à l’ouest/ à l’ennemi

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to defect to the west / to the enemy

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fuite des cerveau / afflux des cerveaux

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brain drain / brain gain

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partir de rien

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to start from scratch

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le travail au noir

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moonlighting

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un atelier clandestin

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a sweatshop

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exploiter les travailleurs immigrés

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to exploit migrant workers

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un permis de travail, une carte de travail

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a work permit

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un permis de séjour

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a residence permit

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un travailleur migrant

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a migrant worker

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un travailleur invité

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a guest worker

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s’intégrer

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to become integrated

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bien s’intégrer dans une socité

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to integrate well into a society

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l’insertion sociale

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social integration

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régulariser la situation des clandestins

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to regularize the status of illegal immigrants

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la régularisation

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regularization

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se faire naturaliser britannique

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to be granted British citizenship

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un quota

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a quota

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le regroupement familial

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family reunion

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qq qui abuse du système des prestations sociales

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a benefit cheat

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la fraude aux prestations sociales

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benefit fraud

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un parasite

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freeloader

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un mariage blanc

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a marriage of convenience

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inonder

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to flood

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être envahi par les étrangers

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to be swamped with foreigners

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l’arriver massive / l’afflux de travailleurs

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the influx of workers

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endiguer l’afflux d’immigrés

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to stem the flow of immigrants

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limiter l’immigration

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to restrict immigration

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un parti d’extrême droite

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a far right party

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faire fuir les immigrants

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to scare immigrants away

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empêcher les indésirables d’entrer

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to keep out undesirables

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la xénophobie

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xenophobia

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xénophobe

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xenophobic

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des immigrés de deuxième génération

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second-generation immigrants

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avoir un grand père né à l’étranger

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to have a foreign-born grandfather

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des jeunes gens d’orgine asiatique / portugaise

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young men of Asian / portuguese descent

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un français de naissance

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a native of France

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un NY de souche

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a born and bred New Yorker

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il est français de souche

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he’s of French origin

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le Maghreb

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North Africa

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les Maghrébins

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North Africans

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pakistanais/du Bangladesh

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Pakistani / Bangladeshi

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hispanophone / parlant le hindi

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Spanish-speaking / Hindi - speaking

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diaspora

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diaspora