GRE阅读练习：法国移民后代生活水平偏低.docxVIP

Word文档下载后（可任意编辑） 第 第 PAGE 1 页 共 NUMPAGES 1 页 GRE阅读练习：法国移民后代生活水平偏低 GRE阅读训练：GRE阅读练习：法国移民后代生活水平偏低 GRE考试精品课程指导  A taboo on studying immigrant families performance is fraying  打破调查移民家庭表现的禁忌  BY LAW, French authorities cannot collect ethnic statistics. All citizens are considered equal. Differentiating them is felt to imply stigmatization, or even worse to echo the singling out of Jews that took place under the collaborationist Vichy regime in the 1940s.  根据法律规定，法国官方部门不可以收集少数民族的统计资料。所有公民一律平等，对其进行区分可认为是有意歧视，严重者，可唤起20世纪40年代维希卖国政府对犹太人迫害的记忆。  Yet however strong the historical reasons, this approach makes it difficult to tell whether French people of different backgrounds really do fare as well as each other. A new study suggests they do not.  然而，无论历史的作用多么强大，禁止的方法让人难以发现法国不同背景的人们是否真的个个表现良好。一项新的研究表明，并非全然良好。  It comes, surprisingly, from an official source: France Strategie, the governments economic-strategy unit, which is run by Jean Pisani-Ferry, an economist. The authors get round the ethnicity taboo by using census data on national origin. Several decades after mass immigration began, enough long-term data exist to see how the generation raised in France by parents from other countries has done.  出人意外的是，该项研究竟出自官方之手：由经济学家Jean Pisani-Ferry经营的政府经济战略研究单位France Strategie。研究使用原籍人口普查资料，以避免触犯民族禁忌。人口大规模迁入的几十年来，存取了大量的长期数据，足以用来研究第二代移民的表现。  In a word, badly. Youth unemployment of 32% for French-born citizens whose parents arrived from Africa, including sub-Saharan countries and those of the Maghreb, is twice as high as for those with no immigrant background. Fully 30% leave high school without any diploma or qualification, against 16% of those without immigrant parents. French people with parents from Africa have less stable working lives, and are more likely to live in poor neighborhoods, than those with non-African immigrant backgrounds, the report finds.  一言以蔽之，糟糕透顶。对于来自撒哈拉以南以及马格里布等非洲地区的第二代法国移民，其青年失业率为32%，是无移民背景人群的两倍。高中毕业时未获得任何学位或文