Immigration Flashcards

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un étranger

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a foreigner

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un inconnu

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a stranger

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la nationalité

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nationality

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un ressortissant étranger

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a foreign national

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les personnes de nationalité française

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French citizen

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émigrer en Nouvelle-Zélande

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to emigrate to New Zealand

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immigrer en France

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to immigrate to France

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une vague d’immigration

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a wave of immigration

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immigration à grande échelle, de masse

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large-scale/mass immigration

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un exode

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an exodus

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un nouvel arrivant

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a newcomer

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pays natal, pays d’origine

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native/home country

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un pays d’accueil

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a host country

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un pays d’adoption

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an adoptive country, a country of adoption

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accueillir, accueillant

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to welcome, welcoming

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immigration choisie, contrôlée

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selective, controlled immigration

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les flux migratoires

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migration flows

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un passager clandestin

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a stowaway

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l’immigration clandestine, irrégulière

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illégal/uncontrolled immigration

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un immigrant clandestin, un sans-papier

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an illegal immigrant, an illegal alien, an undocumented alien

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il est en situation régulière

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his paper are not in order

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une frontière

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a frontier, a border

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fermer les frontières

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to close one’s border

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les contrôles aux frontières

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border controls

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un contrôle d'identité
identity check
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un centre de rétention administrative
a holding center, a detention facility
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un passeport, une carte d'identité, un visa
a passport, an identity card, a visa
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un réfugié
a 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 refuge, take shelter
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demande l'asile politique
to seek political asylum
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un demandeur d'asile
an asylum-seeker
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fuir a persécution, la misère
to flee persecution, destitution
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échapper à la pauvreté
to escape poverty
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chercher de meilleures conditions de vie
to be in search of better living-conditions
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le trafic d'êtres humains
human trafficking
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un contrebandier, un passeur
a smugler
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les passeurs d'immigrants clandestins
people-smugglers
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un réseau de passeurs
a smuggling ring
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un faux passeport
a fake passport
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reconduire quelqu'un à la frontière
to escort someone 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 quelqu'un
to deport sb
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être refoulé à la frontière
to be returned away at the border
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être expulsé
to be ordered out of the country
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s'éxiler
to go into exile
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un exilé
an exile
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exiler, bannir quelqu'un
to exil, banish sb
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s'expatrier
to expatriate oneself
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un expatrier
an expatriate, an expat
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passer à l'Ouest/ à l'ennemi
to defect to the West/to the enemy
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fuite des cerveaux/afflux des cerveaux
brain drain/gain
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partir de rien
to start from scratch
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le travail au noir
moonlighting
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un atelier clandestin
a sweatshop
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exploiter les travailleurs immigrés
to exploit migrants workers
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un permis de travail, une carte de travail
a work permit
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un permis/carte de séjour
a residence permit, a resident permit
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un travailleur migrant
a migrant worker
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un travailleur invité
a guest worker
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s'intéger
to become integrated
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bien s'intégrer dans une société
o 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
regularization
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se faire naturaliser britannique, être naturalisé britannique, obtenir la nationalité britannique
to be granted British citizenship, to become a British citizen
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un quota
a quota
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le regroupement familial
family reunion, reunification
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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 convenience
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inonder
to flood
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être envahi par les étrangers
to be swamped with foreigners
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l'arrivée massive, l'afflux de travailleurs
the influx of workers
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endiguer l'afflux d'immigrés
to stem the flow of immigrants
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limiter, freiner l'immigration
to restrict, curb immigration
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un partid '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 d'entrer
to keep out undesirables
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la xénophobie, xenophobe
xenophobia, xenophobic
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des immigrés de deuxièmes génération
second-genreation immigrants
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avoir un grand-père né à l'étranger
to have a foreign-board grandfather
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des jeunes gens d'origines asiatiques/portugaise
young men of Asian/Portuguese 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, of French extraction
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le Maghreb, les Maghrébins
North Africa, North Africans
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hispanophone
Spanish-speaking
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la diaspora
diaspora