La Haine Socio-Economic Vocab Flashcards
(25 cards)
Les allocations
Benefits (From the Government)
Les Banlieues
Suburbs around large cities
Le Banlieusard
Someone living in a suburb
Une Bavure
A police slip-up
Une beur/ Une beurette
Colloquial - a person born in France whose parents or grandparents are immigrants from North-Africa
Un bouc émissaire
A scape-goat
Le chômage
Unemployment
La cité
Housing estate
Un commissariat
A police station
La déliquance
Deliquancy / crime
Le délit de faciès
An act by which someone is judged by their appearance and/ or their skin colour
Une émeute
A riot
Les Français de souche
Native french people
Les grands ensembles
Large housing estates
Le HLM
Low-cost accomadation, social housing
Insalubre
Squalid
Exigu
Cramped
Le Mahgreb
Area of North Africa compromising Algeria, Tunisia and Morocco
Les Maghrébins
People from Maghreb countries in North Africa
La main d’œuvre
Work force
Le malaise
Social unrest
Une manifestation
A riot, demonstration
Se plaindre de
To complain about
Le regroupement familial
Family reunification
