Immigration Flashcards

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Un immigré

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An immigrant

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An illegal immigrant

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Un clandestin

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Immigration

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L’immigration

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A national

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Un ressortissant

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A native

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Un autochtone

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A foreigner

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Un étranger

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To immigrate

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Immigrer

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To emigrate

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Émigrer

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A temporary visa

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Un visa temporaire

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A country of origin

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Un pays d’origine

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A host country

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Un pays d’accueil

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Asylum

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Un asile

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To flee war

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Fuir la guerre

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Persecution

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La persécution

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The language barrier

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La barrière linguistique

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To tackle problems

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Affronter des problèmes

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A person without residency

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Un sans-papiers

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A résidence permit

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Un permis de séjour

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Immigrant smuggling

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Le trafic d’immigrants

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People smuggler

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Un passeur

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Integration/ settling in

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L’intégration

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To integrate/ settle in/ fit in

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S’intégrer à

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Assimilation

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L’assimilation

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Alienation

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L’aliénation

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To be rejected

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Être rejeté (de)

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To be excluded from

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Être exclu de

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To feel ostracised

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Se sentir exclu

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To be alienated

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Être aliéné

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Political asylum

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L’asile politique

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To come from

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Provenir de

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Far away from

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Lointain

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A worker

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Un ouvrier

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People on a low income

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La faiblesse de leurs revenus

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A tenant

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La/ le locataire

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Overcrowded

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Surpeuplé

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To improve your lot

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Améliorer ses conditions d’existence

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Border zone

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La zone frontalière

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Social security benefit

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La prestation sociale

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To lead to

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Entraîner

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To cause an outcry

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Faire grand bruit

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To plan

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Prévoir

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A truce

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La trêve

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43
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Shanty town

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Le bidonville

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44
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Gypsies

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Les tsiganes, les Roms

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45
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In the early morning

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Au petit matin

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The police

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Les forces de l’ordre

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An escape

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La fuite

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To be requested to

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Être prié de

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To smash to pieces

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Réduire en morceaux

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Wasteland

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Le terrain vague

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A person entitled to something

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Un ayant droit

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Non governmental organisation

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Une ONG/ NGO

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A political refugee

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Un réfugié politique

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A refugee camp

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Un camp de réfugiés

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A temporary refugee camp

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Un camp de transit

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Border country

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Le pays frontalier

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Country of birth

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Le pays natal

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Movement of workers

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La circulation des travailleurs

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Restriction on movement

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Une restriction transitoire

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Emigrant/ someone leaving a country

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Le ressortissant

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To abandon one’s customs

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Renoncer à ses coutumes

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Culture

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La culture

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To cross a culture

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Passer d’une culture à une autre

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Cultural fusion

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Le mélange culturel

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Cultural values

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Les valeurs culturelles

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Multiculturalism

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Le pluralisme culturel

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Cultural background

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Le milieu culturel

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A clash of cultures

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Le choc de deux cultures

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Cultural wrench

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Le déracinement culturel

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To impose a culture on

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Imposer une culture à

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To be absorbed into

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Être absorbé par une culture

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To contribute to a culture

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Contribuer à une culture

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Bring new vitality to

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Apporter une nouvelle énergie à

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To bring new skills to

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Apporter des talents à

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To play a useful role in

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Jouer un rôle utile dans

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To be paid “off the books”

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Être payé au noir

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To take advantage of

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Exploiter

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To deport

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Déporter

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A deportee

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Un déporté

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To repatriate

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Repatrier

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North Africans living in France

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Le/la Beur

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Manager/ person in charge

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Le/la responsable

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2nd year degree

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Le BTS

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Department supervisor

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Le chef de rayon

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Fixed term contract

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Le CDD

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permanent contract

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le CDI

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Root

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La racine

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Suburbs

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Le banlieue

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Unemployment rate

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Le taux de chômage

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Employment

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Une embauche

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Riot

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Une émeute

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To arise

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Surgir

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Neighbourhood

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Le quartier

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To be triggered

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Être déclenché

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A target

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La cible

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Public service

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La fonction publique

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To take it out on/ attack

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S’en prendre à

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To transfer to

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Reporter sur

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Hope

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Un espoir

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To move away

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S’éloigner

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To be forced to

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Être contraint de

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Tear/ breakdown

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Le déchirement

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Full veil

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Le voile intégral

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Modest

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Pudique

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Muslim headscarf

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Le voile islamique

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To veil one’s face

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Se voiler le visage

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To take on a new nationality

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Être naturalisé(e)

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To make oneself understood

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Se faire comprendre

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To miss one’s country

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Regretter son pays

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Sectarianism/ living in a separate, non-integrated group

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Le communautarisme

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Friction

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Un heurt

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An outcast

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Un paria

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Religious practice

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Le culte

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Burqa

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La burqa

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Niqab

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Le niqab