La Haine Vocab Flashcards
benefits
les allocations (f)
the baby boom
le baby boom
suburbs around large cities
les banlieues (f)
someone living in the banlieues
en banlieusard
a police slip up
une bavure
colloquial term for European born of North African descent
un(e) beur(ette)
shantyville
un bidonville
a scapegoat
un bouc émissaire
unemployment
le chômage
housing estate
la cité
dormitory estate
une cité-dortoir
a police state
un commissariat
a decade
une décennie
delinquency
la délinquance
act by which someone is judged by their appearance / skin colour
le délit de faciès
a riot
une émeute
native French people
les Français de souche
to spread
gagner du terrain
large housing estates
les Grand Ensembles
a makeshift dwelling
un habitat de fortune
social housing
le HLM
squalid
insalubre
area of N. Africa containing: Algeria, Tunisia and Morocco
le Maghreb
people from the Maghreb
les Maghrébins