Immigration Flashcards

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loin des yeux, loin du coeur

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out of sight, out of mind

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faire des économies

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to save money

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enterrer/ enfouir/ plonger quelque chose

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to bury

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un étranger

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a foreighner

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un inconnu

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a stranger

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récompenser/ valoriser

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to reward

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un enterrement

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a burial

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dans une étude

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in a piece of research

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dans des études

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in research

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fiable

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reliable

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sur qui on peu compter

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dependable

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travailleur

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industrious

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indépendamment

sans tenir compte de

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regardless

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les emprunteurs en général
les emprunteurs (que je connais)
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borrowers

the borrowers

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ça te dirait de

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do you fancy + ing
how do you fancy + ing
do you feel like + ing

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Que cela te plaise ou pas

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Wether you like it or not

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un expert comptable

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a chartered accountant

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avoir des intentions cachées

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to have a hidden agenda

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c’est une priorité

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it’s top/ high of the agenda

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être mal fondé

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to be ill-founded

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à l’ordre du jour

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on the agenda

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sensibiliser qqn a qqc

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to sensitize sb to sth

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ne pas faire confiance

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to distrust

to mistrust

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méfiant

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distrustful

suspicious

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emprunter: faire un emprunt
to borrow money from sby | to take out a loan
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prêter de l'argent
to lend/ loan money
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un ressortissant étranger
a foreign national
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émigrer en...
To emigrate to
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immigrer en
to immigrate to
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une vague de migration
a migration wave
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immigration à grande échelle
large-scale/ mass immigration
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un exode
an exodus
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un nouvel arrivant
a newcomer
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pays d'origine
Home/ native country
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la patrie
homeland
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un pays d'accueil
a host country
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un pays d'adoption
an adoptive country
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accueillir
to welcome
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accueillant
welcoming
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une politique migratoire
an immigration policy
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immigration choisie
Controlled/ selective migration
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flux migratoires
migration flows
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se déraciner
to uproot
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un mendiant
a beggar
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l'immigration clandestine
illegal immigration
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l'immigration sauvage
uncontrolled immigration
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un passager clandestin
a stowaway
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il est en situation irrégulière
his papers are not in order
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How many migrants in the UK in 2005 ?
565.000 (32% African, 40% Asian)
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contrôles d'identité
identity check
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un centre de rétention
a holding centre | a detention facility
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un visa
a visa
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fébrile
feverish
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mettre les nerfs à vif
jangle raw nerves
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croque-mitaine
bogeyman
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un réfugié
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 refugee/ shelter
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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 des meilleures conditions de vie
to escape poverty
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banlieues lointaines
exurbs
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The number of illegal immigrants in the US in 2006
11 million
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faire pression sur
to undercut
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le trafic d'êtres humains
human trafficking
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un contrebandier/ 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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reconduire quelqu'un 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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expulser qn
to deport sb
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être refoulé à la frontière
to be turned away at the border
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être expulsé
to be ordered out of a country
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What is the Green Card ?
The nickname given to a resident card in the US. It is granted to foreigners who have permanent resident status. 50.000/y migrants visas are made available through the Green Card Lottery
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s'exiler
to go into exile
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un exilé
an exile
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exiler/ bannir qn
to exile/ banish sb
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s'expatrier
to expatriate oneself
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un expatrié
an expatriate/ expat
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passer à l'Ouest/ à l'ennemi
to defect to the West/ to the ennemy
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fuite des cerveaux/ afflux des cerveaux
Barin drain/ gain
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partir de rien
to start from scratch
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un travail au noir
moonlighting
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exploiter des travailleurs immigrés
to exploit migrant workers
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un permis de travail
a work permit
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permis de séjour
a residence permit
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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 société
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
regularisation
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se faire naturaliser britannique
to be granted British citizenship
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un quota
quota
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regroupement familial
family reunion/ reunification
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citoyenneté méritée
earned citizenship
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accéléré
fast-tracked
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qn 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
a freeloader
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un mariage blanc
a sham marriage | a marriage of convinience
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inonder
to flood
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être envahi par des étrangers
to to be swamped with foreigners
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l'arrivée massive de travailleurs
the influx of workers
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endiguer l'afflux des migrants
to stem the flow of immigrants
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limiter/ freiner l'immigration
to restrict/ to curb 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 de rentrer
to keep out undesirables
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la xénophobie
xenophobia
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un xénophobe
a xenophobic
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mettre à rude épreuve
to put a strain on
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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'origine asiatique
young men of Asian descent
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un Français de naissance
a native of France
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un New Yorkais de souche
a born and bred New Yorker
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il est français de souche
he is of French origin/ extraction
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Le Magherb
North Africa
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Pakistanais | Bangladais
Pakistani | Bangladeshi
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Parlan le Hindi
Hindi-speaking
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diaspora
diaspora
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un pays de cocagne
a land of milk and honey
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trouver la poule aux oeufs d'or
to strike it rich
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imposer
to burden
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appartement
tenement
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a burden
un fardeau
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passer de la misère à la richesse
to gro from rags to riches
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entrer furtivement
to sneak into
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rester dans un pays au-delà de la durée de son visa
to overstay one's visa