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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3
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la nationalité

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nationality

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4
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un ressortissant étranger

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a foreign national

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5
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les personnes de nationalité française

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French citizen

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6
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émigrer en Nouvelle-Zélande

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to emigrate to New Zealand

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7
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immigrer en France

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to immigrate to France

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8
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une vague d’immigration

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a wave of immigration

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9
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immigration à grande échelle, de masse

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large-scale/mass immigration

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10
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un exode

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an exodus

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11
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un nouvel arrivant

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a newcomer

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12
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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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15
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accueillir, accueillant

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to welcome, welcoming

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16
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immigration choisie, contrôlée

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selective, controlled immigration

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17
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les flux migratoires

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migration flows

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18
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un passager clandestin

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a stowaway

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19
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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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21
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il est en situation régulière

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his paper are not in order

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22
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une frontière

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a frontier, a border

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23
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fermer les frontières

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to close one’s border

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24
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les contrôles aux frontières

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border controls

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25
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un contrôle d’identité

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identity check

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26
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un centre de rétention administrative

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a holding center, a detention facility

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27
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un passeport, une carte d’identité, un visa

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a passport, an identity card, a visa

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28
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un réfugié

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a refugee

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29
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une personne déplacée

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a displaced person

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30
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un apatride

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a stateless person

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31
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se réfugier

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to take refuge, take shelter

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32
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demande l’asile politique

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to seek political asylum

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33
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un demandeur d’asile

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an asylum-seeker

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34
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fuir a persécution, la misère

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to flee persecution, destitution

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35
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échapper à la pauvreté

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to escape poverty

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36
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chercher de meilleures conditions de vie

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to be in search of better living-conditions

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37
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le trafic d’êtres humains

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human trafficking

38
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un contrebandier, un passeur

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a smugler

39
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les passeurs d’immigrants clandestins

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people-smugglers

40
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un réseau de passeurs

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a smuggling ring

41
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un faux passeport

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a fake passport

42
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reconduire quelqu’un à la frontière

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to escort someone back to the border

43
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renvoyer un immigrant dans son pays d’origine

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to send an immigrant back to his native country

44
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expulser quelqu’un

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to deport sb

45
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être refoulé à la frontière

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to be returned away at the border

46
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être expulsé

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to be ordered out of the country

47
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s’éxiler

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to go into exile

48
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un exilé

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an exile

49
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exiler, bannir quelqu’un

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to exil, banish sb

50
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s’expatrier

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to expatriate oneself

51
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un expatrier

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an expatriate, an expat

52
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passer à l’Ouest/ à l’ennemi

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to defect to the West/to the enemy

53
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fuite des cerveaux/afflux des cerveaux

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brain drain/gain

54
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partir de rien

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to start from scratch

55
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le travail au noir

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moonlighting

56
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un atelier clandestin

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a sweatshop

57
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exploiter les travailleurs immigrés

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to exploit migrants workers

58
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un permis de travail, une carte de travail

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a work permit

59
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un permis/carte de séjour

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a residence permit, a resident permit

60
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un travailleur migrant

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a migrant worker

61
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un travailleur invité

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a guest worker

62
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s’intéger

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to become integrated

63
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bien s’intégrer dans une société

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o integrate well into a society

64
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l’insertion sociale

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social integration

65
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régulariser la situation des clandestins

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to regularize the status of illegal immigrants

66
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la régularisation

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regularization

67
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se faire naturaliser britannique, être naturalisé britannique, obtenir la nationalité britannique

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to be granted British citizenship, to become a British citizen

68
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un quota

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a quota

69
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le regroupement familial

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family reunion, reunification

70
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qui abuse du système des prestations sociales

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a benefit cheat

71
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la fraude aux prestations sociales

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benefit fraud

72
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un parasite

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a freeloader

73
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un mariage blanc

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a sham marriage, a marriage of convenience

74
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inonder

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to flood

75
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être envahi par les étrangers

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to be swamped with foreigners

76
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l’arrivée massive, l’afflux de travailleurs

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the influx of workers

77
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endiguer l’afflux d’immigrés

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to stem the flow of immigrants

78
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limiter, freiner l’immigration

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to restrict, curb immigration

79
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un partid ‘extrême droite

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a far-right party

80
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faire fuir les immigrants

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to scare immigrants away

81
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empêcher les indésirables d’entrer

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to keep out undesirables

82
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la xénophobie, xenophobe

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xenophobia, xenophobic

83
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des immigrés de deuxièmes génération

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second-genreation immigrants

84
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avoir un grand-père né à l’étranger

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to have a foreign-board grandfather

85
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des jeunes gens d’origines asiatiques/portugaise

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young men of Asian/Portuguese descent

86
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un Français de naissance

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a native of France

87
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un New Yorkais de souche

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a born and bred New Yorker

88
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il est français de souche

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he is of French origin, of French extraction

89
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le Maghreb, les Maghrébins

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North Africa, North Africans

90
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hispanophone

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Spanish-speaking

91
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la diaspora

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diaspora