Vocabulary-4 : Social tensions Flashcards

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Une politique de l’immigration

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An immigration policy

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Immigration choisie

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Selective/controlled immigration

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Flux migratoires

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Migration flows

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Un étranger

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A foreigner

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Un clandestin

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An illegal immigrant

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Un demandeur d’asile

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An asylum seeker

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Un pays d’accueil

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A host country

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Une vague d’immigration

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A wave of immigrants

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Immigration de masse

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Large-scale/Mass immigration

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Un afflux d’immigrant

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An afflux of immigrants

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Fuir

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To flee

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La purification ethnique

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Ethnic cleansing

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Trafic des êtres humains

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Human trafficking

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Un contre-bandier/passeur

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A smuggler

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Passeurs d’immigrants cladestins

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People-smugglers

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Demander la nationalité

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To apply for citizenship

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Accorder la nationalité

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To grant citizenship

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Remplir les conditions requises pour obtenir le statut de…

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To qualify as

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S’intégrer parfaitement dans

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To become fully integrated into

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Un nouvel arrivant

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A newcomer

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Partir de rien

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To start from scratch

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Un autochtone

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A native

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Une situation tendue

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A tense situation

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Déclencher/Alimenter les tensions

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To spark/fuel tensions

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Sentiments xénophobes
Anti-immigrants out
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Empêcher les immigrants d'entrer
To keep immigrant out
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Mettre en place/baisser les quotas d'immigration
To intruduce/roll bach immigration caps
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Traverser la frontière
To cross the border
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Patrouilles de police frontalières
Border patrols
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Prendre les emplois des nationaux
To take jobs away from the natives
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Un bouc émissaire
A scapegoat
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Discrimination raciale, sexuelle
Raciale, sex discrimination
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Persécuter q1
To victimize sb
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Etre victime de discrimination
To be discriminated against
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Borné, à l'esprit étroit
Narrow-minded/prejudiced
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Phallocrate, machiste, chauvin
Chauvinistic
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Homophobic
Homophobe
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Favoriser/attiser la haine
To foster/fuel, hatred
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Une agression raciste
A racial attack
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Les stéréotypes liés au sexe
Gender stereotypes
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Harcèlement
Sexual/moral harassement
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Culture dominante
Mainstream culture
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Faire rentrer dans la norme
To bring sth into the mainstream
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Des citoyens de seconde zone
Second-class citizens
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Société à deux vitesses
A two-tier society
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Fracture sociale
The gap between the haves and the have-nots
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Le partage des richesses
The distribution of wealth
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L'ascenceur social
The social ladder
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Bas de l'échelle sociale
The lower rungs of the social ladder
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Ménages à revenus modestes
A low income household
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Les plus démunis
The destitute
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Le mvmt des droits civiques
The civil rights movement
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Mesures d'embauche anti-discriminatoires
Affirmative action
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Des lois sans discrimination raciale
Colour-blind laws
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Corriger les déséquilibres
To redress imbalances
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Quelle que soit la race
Regardless of race
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Sur un même pied d'égalitéque
To be on an equal footing with
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Rendre plus équitable
To level the playing field
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Avoir une réelle chance de
To stand a fighting chance
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N'avoir aucune chance de
Not stand a chance
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Le mécontentement
Discontent
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Descendre dans les rues
To take to the streets
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Trouble, agitation
Unrest, Turmoil
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Une émeute
A riot
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Déclencher, causer qch
To trigger sth
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Se droguer
To take drugs
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Etre accroc à
To be hooked on
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Crimes liés à la drogue
Drug-related crimes
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Le trafic de drogue
Drug-trafficking
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Alcolisation express
Binge drinking
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La boisson, l'alcool
Alcohol, drink, booze
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Se soûler
To get drunk
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Le maintien de l'ordre
Law enforcement
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Faire respecter la loi
To enforce the law
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Enquêter sur un délit
To investigate a crime
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Patrouiller les quartiers sensibles
To patrol sensitive suburbs
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Empêcher, faire de la prévention contre
To prevent
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sévir contre qch
To crack/clamp down sth
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S'attaquer aux comportements anti-sociaux
To tackle anti-social behaviour
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Respecter la loi
To abide by the law
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Respecter les règles du jeu
To play by the rules
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Faire qch dans les règles de l'art
To do sth by the book
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Enfreindre la loi
To break the law
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Un délit
An offence
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Un délinquant
An offender/A delinguent
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Récidiver
To re-oddend, To repeat an offence
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Commettre un crime
To commit a crime
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Avoir un casier judiciaire
To have a criminal record
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Attaquer,agresser
To attack, to assault, to mug
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Un voleur
A robber/A thief
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dépouiller qq1 de qqc
To rob sb of sth
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La petite criminalité
Petty crime
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Le vol à l'étalage
Shoplifting
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La criminalité en col blanc
White-collar crime
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Un voyeur
A voyeur
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Le viol
A rape
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Un meurtrier
A murderer
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Mettre en état d'arrestation
To arrest sb
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Accuse/inculper
To charge sb
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Poursuivre qq1 en justice
To sue sb /To take
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Un procès
A lawsuit/A trial
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Juger qq1
To try sb
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Un accusé
A defendant
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Des preuves
Proofs/Evidence
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Etre reconnu coupable de qch
To be found guilty of sth
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Etre innocenté
To be prooved innocent
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Une erreur judiciaire
A misscarriage of justice
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Ternir une réputauion
To tarnish sb's reputation
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Réparer une injustice
To right a wrong
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Une peine de travaux d'intérêt général
Ac ommunity sentence
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Un bracelet électronique
An electronic tag
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Liberté conditionnelle/surveillée
To be on probation/parole
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Mettre qq1 derrière les barreaux
To send sb to prison/to jail
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Un détenu
An inmate
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La surpopulation carcérale
Prison overcrowding
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La peine capitale
The death penalty/Capital punishment
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Etre dans le couloir de la mort
To be on death row
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Partisan de l'abolition de la peine de mort
An abolitionist