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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)
A relative
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Rejoindre sa famille
To join one's family
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Rompre avec
To pull up one's roots
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Se couper de ses racines
To cut oneself off from one's roots
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Rompre avec le passé
To break with the past
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Abandonner
To forsake
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Un saut vers la liberté
A leap towards freedom
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Être déraciné
To be displaced
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Affronter
To cope with
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Surmonter
To overcome
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Supporter des privations
To endure hardships
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Une barrière linguistique
A langage barrier
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Dangereux
Hazardous
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Précaire
Precarious
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Épuisant
Exhausting
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Être privé de
To be deprived of
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Une vague d'immigrants
A surge of immigrants
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Un déferlement
A flood
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Un exode
An exodus
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Être envahi
To be overwhelmed
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Laisser entrer
To let in
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Absorber
To take in
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Ouvrir ses frontières
To open one's borders
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Traverser la frontière en masse
To stream across the border
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Limiter l'afflux
To curb the flow/the flood
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Une barrière
A barrier
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Un pays d'accueil malgré lui
A reluctant host country
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Le système des quotas
The quota system
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Une politique restrictive
A restrictive policy
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Assouplir des restrictions
To relax/to slacken restrictions
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Renforcer
To tighten
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Adoucir
To soften
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Promulguer des lois contre
To pass laws against
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Renforcer les conditions d'obtention des visas
To tighten visa requirements
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Interdire
To prohibit
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Interdire la citoyenneté d'office
To ban automatic citizenship
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Être partisan de
To favour
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Sélectionner
To screen out
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Immigrer
To immigrate
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Émigrer aux USA
To migrate to the USA
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Être attiré par un pays
To be attractif to a country
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Un candidat a l'immigration
A would be immigrant
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Pousser qlq a l'immigration
To push somebody to emigrate
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Fuir un pays, un régime
To flee a country, a regime
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Chercher a fuir ma guerre
To seek refuge from the war
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Chercher l'asile politique
To seek political asylum
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Chercher une meilleur vie
To be un search of better life
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L'attrait d'emplois bien rémunérés
The lure of well-paid jobs
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Chercher des salaires plus élevés
To look for higher wages
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Faire fortune
To make a fortune
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Rompre avec le passé
To break with the past
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Partir de rien
To start from scratch
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Prendre un nouveau départ
To start anew
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Être confronté à des difficultés
To be confronted with difficulties
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Être exploité
To be exploited
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Un atelier clandestin
A sweatshop
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Surmonter les obstacles
To overcome obstacles
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S'intégrer
To integrate
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Une politique d'immigration
An immigration policy
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Fermer ses frontières
To seal one's borders
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Endiguer le flot des immigrés
To stem the flow of immigrants
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Imposer des quotas
To impose quotas
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Être refoulé à la frontière
To be turned away at the border
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Renforcer les contrôles de frontière
To tighten border controls
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Être expulsé d'un pays
To be expelled from a country
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L'immigration clandestine
To stem the flow of immigrants
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Un passager clandestin
A stowaway
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Un travailleur immigré
A guest worker
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Les sans papiers
The undocumented
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Un passeur
A smuggler
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Un faux passeport
A fake passport
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Réprimer l'immigration clandestine
To crack down on illégal immigration

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