Immigration Flashcards

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1
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un étranger

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a foreigner

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un ressortissant étranger

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a foreign national

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3
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les personnes de nationalité française

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French citizens

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4
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immigrer en France

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immigrate to France

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5
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immigration à grande échelle,

immigration de masse

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large-scale immigration,

mass immigration

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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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9
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immigration choisie

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selective immigration,

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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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 papers are not in order

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14
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fermer ses frontières

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to close one’s borders

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15
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les contrôles d’identité

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identity checks

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un centre de rétention

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a holding centre,
a detention centre,
a detention facility (adminidtrative)

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17
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un passeport

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a passport

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18
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un apatride

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a stateless person

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19
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se réfugier

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to take refuge,

take shelter

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20
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demander l’asile politique

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to seek political asylum

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fuir la persécution,

fuir la misère

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to flee persecution,

to flee destitution

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le trafic des êtres humains

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human trafficking

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un réseau de passeurs

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a smuggling ring

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reconduire quelqu’un à la frontière

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to escort somebody back to the border

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être expulsé

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to be ordered out of the country

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s’exiler

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to go into exile

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exiler quelqu’un,

bannir quelqu’un

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to exile somebody,

to banish somebody

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fuite des cerveaux,

afflux des cerveaux

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brain drain,

brain gain

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le travail au noir

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moonlighting

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exploiter les travailleurs immigrés

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to exploit migrant workers

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un permis de séjour,

une carte de séjour

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a residence permit,

a resident permit

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un travailleur migrant

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a migrant worker

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s’intégrer

A

to become integrated

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régulariser la situation des clandestins

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to regularise the status of illegal immigrants

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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

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le regroupement familial

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family reunion,

family reunification

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quelqu’un qui abuse du système des prestations sociales

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a benefit cheat

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un parasite

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a freeloader

39
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être envahi par les étrangers

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to be swamped with foreigners

40
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endiguer l’afflux d’immigrés

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to stem the flow of immigrants

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limiter l’immigration,

freiner l’immigration

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to restrict immigration,

tp curb immigration

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un parti d’extrême-droite

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a far-right party

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xénophobe

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xenophobic

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des immigrés de deuxième génération

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second-generation immigrants

45
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avoir un grand-père né à l’étranger

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to have a foreign-born grandfather

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des jeunes d’origine asiatique,

des jeunes d’origine portugaise

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young men of Asian descent,

young men of Portugese descent

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un Français de naissance

A

a native of France

48
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Il est français de souche

A

he’s of French origin,

he’s of French extraction

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Hispanophone,

parlant le Hindi

A

Spanish-speaking,

Hindi speaking