Immigration Flashcards

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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
A stowaway
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L'immigration clandestine | L'immigration irrégulière
Illegal immigration
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L'immigration sauvage
Uncontrolled immigration
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Un immigrant clandestin | Un sans-papiers
An illegal immigrant An illegal alien An undocumented alien
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Il est en situation irrégulière
His papers are not in order
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In 2005, where did the majority of migrants to the UK come from?
Africa (32%) | Asia (40%)
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In 2005, where did the majority of migrants from the UK go?
Australia Spain France
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Une frontière
A border | A frontier
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Fermer ses frontières
To close one's borders
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Les contrôles aux frontières
Border controls
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Les contrôles d'identité
Identity checks
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Un centre de rétention (administrative)
A holding centre | A detention facility
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Un passeport
A passport
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Une carte d'identité
An identity card
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Un visa
A visa
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Fébrile
Feverish
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Mettant les nerfs à vif
Jangling raw nerves
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Croquemitaine
Bogeyman
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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
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Demander l'asile politique
To seek political asylum
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Un demandeur d'asile
An asylum-seeker
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Fuir la persécution | Fuir la misère
To flee persecution | To flee 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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Banlieues lointaines
The exurbs
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Faisant pression sur
Undercutting
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Le trafic des êtres humains
Human trafficking
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Un contrebandier | Un passeur
A smuggler
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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 somebody 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 somebody
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Etre refoulé à la frontière
To be turned away at the border
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Être expulsé
To be ordered out of the country
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What is the nickname given to a resident card in the US ?
A green card
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Who is the green card for?
It is granted to foreigners who have permanent resident status
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S'exiler
To go into exile
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Un exilé
An exile
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Exiler | Bannir quelqu'un
To exile | To banish somebody
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S'expatrier
To expatriate oneself
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Un expatrié
An expatriate | An expat
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Passer à l'ouest | Passer à l'ennemi
To defect to the West | To defect to the enemy
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Fuite des cerveaux
Brain drain
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Afflux des cerveaux
Brain 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 migrant workers
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Un permis de travail | Une carte de travail
A work permit
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Un permis de séjour | Une 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 (disposant d'un visa temporaire)
A guest worker
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S'intégrer
To become integrated
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Bien s'intégrer dans une société
To integrate well into a society
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L'insertion sociale
Social integration
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Régulariser la situation des clandestins
To regularise the status of illegal immigrants
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La régularisation
Regularisation
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Se faire naturaliser britannique
To be granted British citizenship
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Être naturalisé britannique | Obtenir la nationalité britannique
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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Citoyenneté méritée
Earned citizenship
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Accéléré
Fast-tracked
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Quelqu'un 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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Etre envahi par les étrangers
To be swamped with foreigners
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L'arrivée massive des travailleurs | L'afflux des 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 l'immigration | Freiner l'immigration
To restrict immigration | To curb immigration
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Un parti d'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
Xenophobia
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Xenophobe
Xenophobic
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Se sont jetés avec jubilation
Pounced with glee
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Se tracasser
To fret about
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Mettait à rude épreuve
Was putting a strain on
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Des immigrés de deuxième génération
Second-generation immigrants
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Avoir un grand-père né à l'étranger
To have a foreign-born grandfather
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Des jeunes gens d'origine asiatique
Young men of Asian descent
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Des jeunes gens d'origine portugaise
Young men of 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 francais de souche
He is of French origin | He is of French extraction
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Le Maghreb
North Africa
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Les maghrébins
North Africans
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Pakistanais | Du Bangladesh
Pakistani | Bangladeshi
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Hispanophone | Parlant le Hindi
Spanish-speaking | Hindi-speaking
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Diaspora
Diaspora