Immigration Flashcards

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1
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un ressortissant étranger

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a foreign national

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2
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immigration à grande échelle

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large-scale immigration

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3
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pays natal

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native country

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4
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pays d’accueil

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host country

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5
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la patrie

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homeland

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6
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un passager clandestin

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a stowaway

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7
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un sans-papiers

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an undocumented alien

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8
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il est en situation irrégulière

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his papers are not in order

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9
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un centre de détention

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a holding centre

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10
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un apatride

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a stateless person

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11
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se réfugier

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to take refuge

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12
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demander l’asyle politique

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to seek political asylum

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fuir la persécution

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to flee persecution

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14
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le trafic d’êtres humains

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human trafficking

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15
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un réseau de passeurs

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a smuggling ring

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16
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reconduire qqun à la frontière

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to escort sb back to the border

17
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être expulsé

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to be ordered out of the country

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s’exiler

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to go into exile

19
Q

le travail au noir

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moonlighting

20
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un permis de séjour

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a residence permit

21
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s’intégrer

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to become integrated

22
Q

être naturalisé britannique

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to be granted british citizenship

23
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le regroupement familial

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family reunion

24
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être envahi par les étrangers

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to be swamped with foreigners

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endiguer l’afflux d’immigrés

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to stem the flow of immigrants

26
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freiner l’immigration

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to curb immigration

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un parti d’extrême-droite

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a far-right party

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xénophobe

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xenophobic

29
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avoir un grand-père né à l’étranger

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to have a foreign-born grandfather

30
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des jeunes d’origine asiatique

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young men of asian descent

31
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un français de naissance

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a native of France

32
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il est français de souche

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he is of French extraction