Immigration Flashcards

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1
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Un afflux

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Influx

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2
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Les repères (trouver ses repères)

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Bearings

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3
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Un étranger

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Foreigner

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4
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Un immigrant

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Immigrant

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5
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Un sans-papier

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Illegal immigrant - No official documents

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6
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Une carte de séjour

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Legal resident card

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7
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Le regroupement familial

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Law which allows immigrants to have their families come into France

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8
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La laïcité

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Secularism - HUGE value since the Revolution

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9
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L’assimilation

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Assimilation

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10
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Un clivage

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Separation

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11
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Une lutte

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Struggle

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12
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Le sectarisme

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Intolerant attitude

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13
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Le public

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The public

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14
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Le chômage

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Unemployment

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15
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La main-d’oeuvre

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Laborers

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16
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Une usine

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Factory

17
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Une HLM (Habitation à Loyer Modéré)

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Subsidized housing

18
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Une cité

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Project (as in subsidized housing) - mostly (can also mean “ensemble d’immeubles”!)

19
Q

Le maire

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Mayor

20
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La mairie

A

Townhall/city hall (1.)

21
Q

Un hôtel de ville

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Townhall/city hall (2.)

22
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Accueillir (Conjugué comme un verbe -ER)

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To welcome

23
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Ralentir

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To slow down

24
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Expulser

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To kick out/expel

25
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Mettre en place

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Establish/to put into place

26
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Subventionner

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Subsidize

27
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Remettre en question

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To start to question

28
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Se débrouiller

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To manage on one’s own, to get along

29
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Se durcir (La position du gouvernement se durcit.)

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To harden

30
Q

S’assouplir (Les lois du gouvernement s’assouplissent.)

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To soften/become more lenient

31
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Venir de l’étranger

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To come from another country

32
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Par rapport à

A

In relation with (1.)

33
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Vis-à-vis de

A

In relation with (2.)

34
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Accueillant(e)

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Welcoming

35
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Laïc/laïque

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Secular

36
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Public/publique

A

Public

37
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Incontournable

A

Inescapable, inevitable, indispensable