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Conclusion: The Production of Order Before the Law

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I can understand that we sometimes become the targets of asylum seekers’ frustration… because they cannot really get hold of the system so they blame us instead. I’ve been called racist on several occasions, so to speak… many of them are used to a corrupt state.

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    Tobias G. Eule

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    Lisa Marie Borrelli

  3. University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

    Annika Lindberg

  4. University of Neuchâtel, Neuchâtel, Switzerland

    Anna Wyss

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Eule, T.G., Borrelli, L.M., Lindberg, A., Wyss, A. (2019). Conclusion: The Production of Order Before the Law. In: Migrants Before the Law. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-98749-1_7

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