US Contemporary politics: Europe’s migration ‘crisis’ isn’t about numbers. It’s about prejudice

Kevin Guyonnet

Degree in International Politics

1st Year

ENGLISH TD US Contemporary politics: Europe’s migration ‘crisis’ isn’t about numbers. It’s about prejudice

1. Synonyms for underlined words in bold type:

Homeless: Vagrant

Broken: failing

Deeply divided: disagreeing

Screening: selection

Ending: conclusion

Deliberately: willingly

Squalid: filthy

Expelled: rejected, banned, got rid of        

Asset: strength, benefits        

Shaped: structured

Hardliners: headstrong

Pander: soften up

Vulnerable: weak

Looked the other way: look on the other hand

Relentless: determined

Dismal: Dark

At stake: at risk

To tackle: to address

Biases: prejudice

Rebooting relations: Do over        

Array: Posturing

Diversity: divergence

Dismantle: to disband/to erase

Breach of: violation of (a law)

Are stuck: are wedged in

Focus: concentrate

Worked out: find something to make another one work

Merged: fused

Reflection: thought

Hate-mongering: detestation

Moral leadership:   

Narrative:  chronology

Exclusion and superiority: separatism

Augurs:  To foretell

Coffers:  hoard up

Pension systems: allowance

Key workers:  Someone whose job is vital to society

Schemes:  plan

Fast-tracked: hurried

Asylum seekers: homeless people

Dither:  confusion

Grassroots: Major

Alleviate: pacify

Has volunteered: has submitted himself

Scaremongering:  scrounging

Saner: more reasonable

Pact: alliance

Clash: brawl

1. Comprehension of the text: highlights and main ideas:

This article deals with the issue of homeless and people in urgent need of an asylum in foreign European countries. The big lines tend to make us understand that because of a twisted European commission, thousands of people don’t get to have any home or any decent place to live in. Although the number of asylum needs decreased for many European countries the migration crisis has no ending. Reasons for all of this happening are mainly because of European’s strong bond to race, religion, culture and ethnicity. Moreover, European’s relations truly need to be started over with African states and Middle-East countries.

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