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L’espoir d’une vie meilleure

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Hoping for a better life

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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

Immigration de masse

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Large-scale immigration

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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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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Se déraciner

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To uproot

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Un mendiant

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A beggar

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Why do people move ?

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In the hope of a better life

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Un passager clandestin

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A stowaway

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L’immigration clandestine

L’immigration 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 papers are not in order

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In 2005, where did the majority of migrants to the UK come from?

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Africa (32%)

Asia (40%)

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In 2005, where did the majority of migrants from the UK go?

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Australia
Spain
France

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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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Fébrile

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Feverish

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Mettant les nerfs à vif

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Jangling raw nerves

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Croquemitaine

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Bogeyman

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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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46
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Se réfugier

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To take refuge

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47
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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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Fuir la persécution

Fuir la misère

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To flee persecution

To flee destitution

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Échapper à la pauvreté

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To escape poverty

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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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Banlieues lointaines

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The exurbs

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Faisant pression sur

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Undercutting

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Le trafic 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 à 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 send an immigrant back to his native country

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Expulser quelqu’un

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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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Être expulsé

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To be ordered out of the country

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What is the nickname given to a resident card in the US ?

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A green card

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Who is the green card for?

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It is granted to foreigners who have permanent resident status

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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 quelqu’un

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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 à l’ouest

Passer à l’ennemi

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To defect to the West

To defect to the enemy

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Fuite des cerveaux

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Brain drain

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Afflux des cerveaux

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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 immigrés

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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 residence 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 status 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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Être 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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Citoyenneté méritée

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Earned citizenship

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Accéléré

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Fast-tracked

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Quelqu’un 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 des travailleurs

L’afflux des 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 l’immigration

Freiner l’immigration

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To restrict immigration

To 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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Se sont jetés avec jubilation

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Pounced with glee

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Se tracasser

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To fret about

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Mettait à rude épreuve

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Was putting a strain on

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Des immigrés de deuxième génération

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Second-generation immigrants

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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 gens d’origine asiatique

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Young men of Asian descent

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Des jeunes gens d’origine portugaise

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Young men of Portuguese descent

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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 francais de souche

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He is of French origin

He is 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

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