la haine context vocab

benefits

les allocations (f)

period marked by a greatly increased birth rate

le baby boom

suburbs around large cities

les banlieues (f)

someone living in the banlieues

un banlieusard

a police slip-up

une bavure

colloquial term to designate European-born people whose parents or grandparents are immigrants from North Africa

un(e) beur(ette)

a shantytown

un bidonville

a scapegoat

un bouc émissaire

unemployment

le chômage

housing estate

la cité

dormitory estate

une cité-dortoir

a police station

un commissariat

a decade

une décennie

delinquency

la délinquance

act by which someone is judged by their appearance and/or 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 Grands Ensembles

a makeshift dwelling

un habitat de fortune

low-cost accommodation, social housing

le HLM (habitation à loyer modéré)

squalid

insalubre

area of North Africa comprising Algeria, Tunisia and Morocco

le Maghreb

people from the Maghreb countries in North Africa

les Maghrébins

workforce

la main-d'oeuvre

social unrest

le malaise

a riot, demonstration

une manifestation

overseas

outre-mer

native French (or European) people who had emigrated to French Algeria in the 1800s and whose descendants

les pieds-noirs

to complain about

se plaindre de

government incentive to increase the birth rate

la politique nataliste

family reunification

le regroupement familial

30 years of prosperity in France after the Second World War

les Trente Glorieuses