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Concatenated Causatives of Causatives
You would need a concrete verb, instead of just make, for the sister's action. My choice would be 言う, like tell in English, and this puts the speaker into the slot for the target, or indirect object, ...
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The use of causative + には in this sentence
So you seem to understand 肩身が狭い is an idiom. Apart from this, the remaining part of the sentence is a simple causative expression. に marks the causee, and は is a topic marker. Also note that ~思いをする is ...
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