La Haine Flashcards
Les allocations (f)
benefits
le baby boom
period marked by a greatly increased birth rate after the second world war
les banlieues (f)
suburbs around large cities
un banlieusard
someone living in the banlieues
une bauvre
a police slip-up
un(e) beur(ette)
colloquial term to designate European-born people whose parents or grandparents are immigrants from North Africa
un bidonville
a shantytown
un bouc emissaire
a scapegoat
le chomage
unemployment
la cite
housing estate
une cite-dortoir
dormitory estate
la delinquence
delinquency
un commissariat
a police station
une decennie
a decade
le delit de facies
act by which someone is judged by their appearance and/or skin colour
une emeute
a riot
les Francais de souche
native French people
gagner du terrain
to spread
les Grands Ensembles
large housing estates
un habitat du fortune
a makeshift dwelling
le HLM
low cost accommodation, social housing
insalubre
squalid
le Maghreb
area of North Africa comprising Algeria, Tunisia and Morocco
les Maghrebins
people from the Maghreb countries in North Africa
la main-d’oeuvre
workforce
le malaise
social unrest
une manifestation
a riot, demonstration
outre-mer
overseas
les pieds-noirs
native French (or European) people who had emigrated to French Algeria in the 1800s and whose descendants had been there ever since.
sa plaindre de
to complain about
la politique nataliste
government incentive to increase the birth rate
