social and historical context Flashcards
les allocations
feminine
benefits
le baby boom
period marked by a greatly increased birth rate after WWII
les banlieues
feminine
suburbs around large cities
un banlieusard
someone living in the banlieues
une bavure
police slip up
un(e) beur(ette)
colloquial term for European-born people whose parents or grandparents are immigrants from North Africa
un bidonville
shanty town
un bouc émissaire
scapegoat
le chômage
unemployment
la cité
housing estate
une cité-dortoir
dormitory estate
un commissariat
police station
une décennie
decade
la délinquance
delinquency
le délit de faciès
act by which someone is judged by their appearance and / or skin colour
une émeute
a riot
les Français de souche
native French people
gagner du terrain
to spread
les Grands Ensembles
large housing estates
un habitat de fortune
a makeshift dwelling
le HLM
low cost accommodation / social housing
insalubre
squalid
le Maghreb
area of North Africa comprising of Algeria, Tunisia, and Morocco
les Maghrébins
people from the Maghreb countries
la main-d’œuvre
workforce
le malaise
social unrest
une manifestation
demonstration / protest
outre-mer
overseas
les pieds-noirs
native French people who had emigrated to French Algeria in the 1800s and whose descendants had been living there ever since
se plaindre de
to complain about
la politique nataliste
government incentive to increase birth rate
