La Imnigración Flashcards
To take in
Acoger
To contribute (apo..)
Aportar
To support (apo..)
Apoyar
To risk (oneself)
Arriesgarse
Political asylum
El asilo político
Boom
El auge
To look for (bus..)
Buscar
To report
Denunciar
Human rights
Los derechos humanos
Adrift
A la deriva
Collapse
El derrumbe
To waste (des..)
Despilfarrar
Boat
La embarcación
To push
Empujar
To enrich
Enriquecer
Lack (esc..) (noun)
La escasez
To choose (esc…)
Escoger
Hope
La esperanza
Foreigner
El extranjero
Brain drain
La fuga de cerebros
To earn a living
Ganarse la vida
To need (hac..)
Hacer falta
To find (hal..)
Hallar
Hospitality sector
La hostelería
Equality
La igualdad
Ilegal immigrant
El inmigrante irregular
To retire
Jubilarse
Workforce
La mano de obra
To provide for (mant…)
Mantener a
To leave (mar..)
Marcharse
Black market
El mercado sumergido
To suffer (pad..)
Padecer
To pay taxes
Pagar impuestos
A host country
Una país receptor
Boat used by immigrants
La patera
Work permit / residency permit
El permiso de trabajo/de residencia
To head to
Poner rumbo a
Spokesperson
El/la portavoz
Coming from
Procedente de
To take away
Quitar
To carry out
Realizar
To take refuge
Refugiarse
Refugee
Refugiado/a
To return (reg..)
Regresar
To rescue
Rescatar
Social security
La seguridad social
To survive
Sobrevivir
Birth rate
La tasa de natalidad
To relocate/move
Trasladarse
Wall/border
La valla
Despite
A pesar de
To have just (done something)
Acabar de
To show gratitude for
Agradecer
To feed
Alimentar
To yearn
Anhelar
Ancestry
La ascendencia
Quality of life
La calidad de la vida
To change
Cambiar
Census
El censo
Citizenship
La ciudadanía
Colonies
Las colonias
Compartir
To share
To live with
Convivir
To grow up
Crecer
To leave (dej..)
Dejar
Destination
El destino
To spread
Difundir
To head (dir..)
Dirigir
Stability
La estabilidad
To break out
Estallar
Lack of
La falta de
Training
La formación
To earn
Ganar
Warfare
La guerrilla
Hunger
El hambre
To flee
Huir
To increase (in..)
Incrementar
Links with
Los lazos con
La libertad
Freedom
To make ends meet
Llegar a fin de mes
To fight
Luchar
To improve
Mejorar
Spanish-speaking world
Mundo hispánico
To be born
Nacer
Wave/surge/flood of
Oleada de
To stay (per..)
Permanecer
To try your luck
Probar suerte
Post/position
Puesto
To strengthen/ reinforce
Reforzar
To live/reside
Residir
To return (ret..)
Retornar
The Castro Revolution
La revolución castrista
Wealth
La riqueza
To save
Salvar
To carry on /follow
Seguir
To highlight (señ..)
Señalar
European Union
La Unión Europea
To travel
Viajar
To camp out
Acampar
To accept/embrace (aco..)
Acoger
To go deep into
Adentrar
To drown
Ahogarse
To arrest (apr..)
Apresar
Support (arr..) (noun)
El arraigo
Arrival
El arribo
Legal advice (ases..)
El asesoramiento jurídico
Native
Autóctono
To help (aux..)
Auxiliar
To look for (bus..)
Buscar
To fall
Caer
Refuge centre
El centro de asistencia
To get (con..)
Conseguir
Smuggler
El contrabandista
To cross
Cruzar
To look after
Cuidar
To deport
Deportar
Rights
Los derechos
To discover
Descubrir
To arrest
Detener
To register (emp..)
Empadronar
To head/lead (enc..)
Encabezar
The Straits (of Gibraltar)
El estrecho
To avoid (Eva..)
Evadir
To die
Fallecer
To sign
Firmar
Civil servant
El funcionario
To hit
Golpear
To shout
Gritar
Injured person
El herido
To sink
Hundir
Equality
La igualdad
Immigrants without any documents/papers
Los indocumentados
To enter (ing..)
Ingresar
To invest
Invertir
To achieve (log..)
Lograr
Nevertheless
No obstante
Western
Occidental
To pay
Pagar
The native population
La población autóctona
Poverty
La pobreza
Policy/politics
La política
To start/ set in motion
Poner en marcha
The press
La prensa
Gross Domestic Product
El producto interior bruto
To resort to
Recurrir
To legalise
Regularizar
Remittances ( money )
Las remesas
Risk
El riesgo
Survivor
El sobreviviente
Suspicious
Sospechoso
The rate of
La tasa de
To land
Tocar tierra
Trafficker
El traficante
To process (paperwork)
Tramitar
To carry
Transportar
To move
Trasladar
Treatment/agreement
El trato
Journey (2)
La travesía/ el trayecto
Threshold
El umbral
To get together
Unirse
