The second reason that reliance on lay interpreters is problematic has even further-reaching consequences for individual life chances: The fact that in general, lay interpreters must be organised by the migrants themselves, implying that social capital (Bourdieu 1986 ), is highly significant when accessing services of the AMS.
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'We don't worry that much about language': street-level bureaucracy in the context of linguistic diversity.
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