Immigration Flashcards

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1
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Un migrant

Un immigré

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A migrant

An immigrant

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Emigrer en Europe

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To emigrate

To migrate to Europe

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Etre attiré par un pays

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To be attracted to a country

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Une perspective

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A prospect

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Etre attirant

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To be appealing

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Attrayant

Tentant

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To be enticing

Alluring

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Un candidat a l’immigration

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A would-be immigrant

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Pousser qqn a emigrer

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To push someone to emigrate

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Un pays d’acceuil

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A host country

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Fuir un pays

Un regime

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To flee a country

A regime

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Echapper a la pauvreté

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To escape poverty

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Etre dans une misere extreme

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To be in a dire poverty

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Chercher a fuir la guerre

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To seek refuge from the war

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Demander l’asile politique

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To apply for

To seek political asylum

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Un demandeur d’asile

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A asylum seeker

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Chercher une vie meilleure

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To be un search of a better life

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Subvenir aux besoins de sa famille

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To provide for one’s family

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18
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Realiser un reve

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To fulfil a dream

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Satisfaire ses attentes

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To meet expectations

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Avoir acces a

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To have access to

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L’attrait d’emplois bien remuneres

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The lure of a well-paid job

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Chercher des salaires plus eleves

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To look for higher wages

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Faire fortune

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To make a fortune

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Rompre avec le passe

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To break with the past

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Partir de rien

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To start from scratch

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Prendre un nouveau depart

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To start anew

To start afresh

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Etre confronté a des difficultes

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To be faced with

To be confronted with difficulties

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Etre exploité

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To be exploited

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Etre deraciné

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To be uprooted

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Un atelier clandestin

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A sweatshop

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Surmonter les obstacles

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To overcome obstacles

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La barriere de la langue

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Language barrier

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S’integrer

Se fondre dans

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To integrate

To merge into

To blend in

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Une politique d’immigration

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An immigration policy

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L’immigration choisie

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Selective immigration

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Fermer ses frontieres

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To seal one’s borders

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Endiguer le flot des immigrants

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To stem the flow of immigrants

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Gerer l’afflux des refugies

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To cope with the influx of refugeed

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Imposer des quotas

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To impose quotas

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Etre refoule a la frontiere

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To be turned away at the border

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Renforcer les controles aux frontieres

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To tighten border controls

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Etre expulse d’un pays

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To be expelled from a country

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Reprimer l’immigration clandestine

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To crack down on illigal immigration

44
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Un immigre clandestin

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An illigal immigrant

An illigal alien

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Un passage clandestin

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A stowaway

46
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Un travailleur immigré

Un detenteur de permi de travail

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A guest worker

A migrant worker

A green card holder

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Regulatiser les sans-papiers

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To regulatize the undocumented

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Un passeur

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A smuggler

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Un faux passeport

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A fake passeport

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Un fardeau social

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A social burden