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An immigrant

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Un immigrant

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Un immigré clandestin

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An illegal immigrant

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Un ressortissant étranger

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An alien

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Un ressortissant national

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A national

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Un autochtone

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A native

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Passer la douane

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To go through the customs

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Vérifier les papiers

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To check a documents

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Délivrer un visa

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To issue a visa

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Un visa a durée indéterminée

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A temporary visa

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Un pays d’accueil

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A host country

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Un mouvement migratoire

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A migratory mouvement

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Une migration massive

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Mass migration

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Accorder la citoyenneté

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To grant citizenship

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Accorder l’asile politique

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To grant political asylum

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Naturaliser

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To naturalize

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Chercher du travail

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To seek employment

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Être poussé par un sentiment de désespoir

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To be spurred by a sense of desperation

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Être poussé par la misère

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To be pushed by poverty

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La surpopulation

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Overpopulation

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Fuir

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To flee (from)

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Fuir les conflits

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To flee troubles

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Fuir une dictature

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To flee a dictatorship

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Échapper a la famine

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To escape famine

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La fuite de cerveaux

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The brain drain

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Un parent (membre de la famille)

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A relative

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Rejoindre sa famille

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To join one’s family

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Rompre avec

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To pull up one’s roots

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Se couper de ses racines

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To cut oneself off from one’s roots

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Rompre avec le passé

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To break with the past

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Abandonner

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To forsake

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Un saut vers la liberté

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A leap towards freedom

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Être déraciné

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To be displaced

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Affronter

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To cope with

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Surmonter

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To overcome

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Supporter des privations

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To endure hardships

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Une barrière linguistique

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A langage barrier

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Dangereux

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Hazardous

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Précaire

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Precarious

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Épuisant

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Exhausting

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Être privé de

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To be deprived of

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Une vague d’immigrants

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A surge of immigrants

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Un déferlement

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A flood

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Un exode

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An exodus

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Être envahi

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To be overwhelmed

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Laisser entrer

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To let in

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Absorber

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To take in

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Ouvrir ses frontières

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To open one’s borders

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Traverser la frontière en masse

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To stream across the border

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Limiter l’afflux

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To curb the flow/the flood

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Une barrière

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A barrier

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Un pays d’accueil malgré lui

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A reluctant host country

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Le système des quotas

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The quota system

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Une politique restrictive

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A restrictive policy

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Assouplir des restrictions

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To relax/to slacken restrictions

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Renforcer

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To tighten

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Adoucir

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To soften

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Promulguer des lois contre

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To pass laws against

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Renforcer les conditions d’obtention des visas

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To tighten visa requirements

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Interdire

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To prohibit

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Interdire la citoyenneté d’office

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To ban automatic citizenship

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Être partisan de

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To favour

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Sélectionner

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To screen out

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Immigrer

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To immigrate

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Émigrer aux USA

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To migrate to the USA

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Être attiré par un pays

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To be attractif to a country

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Un candidat a l’immigration

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A would be immigrant

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Pousser qlq a l’immigration

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To push somebody 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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Chercher a fuir ma guerre

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To seek refuge from the war

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Chercher l’asile politique

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To seek political asylum

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Chercher une meilleur vie

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To be un search of 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

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Être confronté à des difficultés

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To be confronted with difficulties

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Être 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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Fermer ses frontières

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To seal one’s borders

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Endiguer le flot des immigrés

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To stem the flow of immigrants

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Imposer des quotas

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To impose quotas

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Être refoulé à la frontière

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To be turned away at the border

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Renforcer les contrôles de frontière

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To tighten border controls

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Être expulsé d’un pays

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To be expelled from a country

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L’immigration clandestine

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To stem the flow of immigrants

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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

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Les sans papiers

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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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Réprimer l’immigration clandestine

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To crack down on illégal immigration

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