Vocab - Social et Historique Contexte Flashcards

1
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Les allocations (f)

A

Benefits

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2
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Le baby boom

A

Increased birth rate after WW1

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3
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La banlieue

A

Suburbs

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4
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Un banlieusard

A

Someone living in the banlieues

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5
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Une bavure

A

A police slip up

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6
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Un(e) beur(ette)

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European-born people whose parents or grandparents are immigrants from North Africa

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7
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Un bidonville

A

A shanty town

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8
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Un bouc émissaire

A

A scapegoat

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9
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Le chômage

A

Unemployment

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10
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La cité

A

Housing estate

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11
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Une cité-dortoir

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A dormitory estate

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12
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Un commissariat

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A police station

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13
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Une décennie

A

A decade

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14
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La délinquance

A

Delinquency

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15
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Le délit de faciès

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Act by which someone is judged by their appearance and/or skin colour

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16
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Une émeute

A

A riot

17
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les Français de souche

A

Native french people

18
Q

Gagner du terrain…

A

To spread…

19
Q

Les Grands Ensembles

A

Large housing estates

20
Q

Un habitat de fortune

A

A makeshift dwelling

21
Q

le HLM

A

Low cost accommodation/ social housing

22
Q

Insalubre

A

Squalid

23
Q

Le Maghreb

A

Area of North Africa (Algeria, Tunisia and Morocco)

24
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Les Maghrébins

A

People from the Maghreb countries in North Africa

25
Q

La main-d’œuvre

A

Workforce

26
Q

Le malaise

A

Social unrest

27
Q

Une manifestation

A

A riot/ demonstration

28
Q

Outre-mer

A

Overseas

29
Q

Les pieds-noir

A

Native French (or European) people who had emigrated to North Africa in 1800s and whose descendants had been living there ever since

30
Q

Se plaindre de…

A

To complain about…

31
Q

La politique nataliste

A

Government incentive to increase birth rate