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 citizens

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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 country, home country

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La patrie

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Homeland

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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

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To welcome

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Accueillant

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Welcoming

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La politique migratoire

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Immigration policy

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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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Illegal immigration

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L’immigration sauvage

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Uncontrolled immigration

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Un immigrant clandestin, un sans papiers

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An illegal immigrant
An illegal alien
An undocumented alien

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Il est en situation irrégulière

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His paper are not in ordre

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Une frontière

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A border

A frontier

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Fermer ses frontières

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To close one ´s borders

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Les contrôles aux frontières

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Border controls

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Les contrôles d’identité

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Identity checks

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Un centre de rétention ( administrative)

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A holding centre

A detention facility

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Un passeport

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A passport

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Une carte d’identité

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An identity card

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Un visa

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A visa

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Un réfugié

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A refugee

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Une personne déplacée

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A displaced person

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Un apatride

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A stateless person

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36
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Se réfugier

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To take refuge

To take shelter

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Demander l’asile politique

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To seek political asylum

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Un demandeur d’asile

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An asylum-seeker

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39
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Fuir la persécution / la misère

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To flee persecution / destitution

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Échapper à la pauvreté

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To escape poverty

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Chercher de meilleurs conditions de vie

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To be in search of better living-conditions

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Le traffic des êtres humains

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Human trafficking

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Un contrebandier

Un passeur

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A smuggler

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Les passeurs d’immigrants clandestins

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People-smugglers

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Un réseau de passeurs

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A smuggling ring

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Un faux passeport

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A fake passport

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Reconduire quelqu’un a la frontière

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To escort somebody back to the border

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Renvoyer un immigrant dans son pays d’origine

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To sent an immigrant back to his native country

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Expulser quelquun

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To deport somebody

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Etre refoulé à la frontière

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To be turned away at the border

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Etre expulse

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To be ordered out of the country

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Immigration choisie

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Selective immigration controlled

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S’exiler

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To go into exile

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Un exilé

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An exile

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Exiler

Bannir quelquun

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To exile

To banish somebody

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S’expatrier

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To expatriate oneself

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Un expatrié

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An expatriate

An expat

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Passer a l’ouest / a l’ennemi

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To defect to the west / to the enemy

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Fuite des cerveaux

Afflux des cerveaux

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Brain drain

Brain gain

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Partir de rien

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To start from scratch

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Le travail au noir

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Moonlighting

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Un atelier clandestin

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A sweatshop

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Exploiter les travailleurs immigres

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To exploit migrant workers

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Un permis de travail

Une carte de travail

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A work permit

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Un permis de séjour

Une carte de séjour

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A résidence permit

A resident permit

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Un travailleur migrant

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A migrant worker

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Un travailleur invité ( disposant d’un visa temporaire )

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A guest worker

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S’intégrer

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To become integrated

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Bien s’intégrer dans une société

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To integrate well into a society

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L’insertion sociale

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Social integration

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Régulariser la situation des clandestins

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To regularise the statuts of illegal immigrants

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La régularisation

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Regularisation

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Se faire naturaliser britannique

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To be granted british citizenship

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Etre naturalisé britannique

Obtenir la nationalité britannique

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To become a british citizen

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Un quota

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A quota

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Le regroupement familial

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Family reunion

Reunification

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Quelquun qui abuse du système des prestations sociales

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A benefit cheat

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La fraude aux prestations sociales

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Benefit fraud

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Un parasite

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A freeloader

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Un mariage blanc

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A sham marriage

A marriage of convenience

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Inonder

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To flood

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Etre envahi par les étrangers

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To be swamped with foreigners

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L’arrivée massive

L’afflux de travailleurs

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The influx of workers

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Endiguer l’afflux d’immigrés

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To stem the flow of immigrants

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Limiter / freiner l’immigration

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To restrict / curb immigration

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Un parti d’extrême droite

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A far-right party

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Faire fuir les immigrants

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To scare immigrants away

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Empêcher les indésirables d’entrer

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To keep out undesirables

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La xénophobie

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Xenophobia

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Xenophobe

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Xenophobic

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Des immigrés de deuxieme generation

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Second-generation immigrants

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Avoir un grand père ne a l’étranger

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To have a foreign-born grandfather

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Des jeunes d’origine asiatique / portugaise

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Young men of asian / portuguese

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Un français de naissance

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A native of France

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Un new yorkais de souche

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A born and bred new yorker

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Il est français de souche

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He is of French origin, of French extraction

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Le Maghreb

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North africa

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Les maghrébins

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North africans

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Pakistanais / du Bangladesh

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Pakistani / bangladeshi

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Hispanophone / parlant le hindi

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Spanish-speaking / hindi-speaking

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Diaspora

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Diaspora