Systemic Life Coaching with People with Migration and Refugee Background

Research Paper (postgraduate) from the year 2022 in the subject Social Work, , language: English, abstract: This paper will examine the concept of life coaching, as well as the relationship between life status and aspiration of people with refugee and migration background. It will also investigate the challenges faced by migrants and refugees residing in Germany in the course of their integration to their new host country. The paper concludes by identifying various coping strategies for the migrants and refugees.

The integration of refugees is a long term process, as they are facing quite a number of challenges, such as language barrier, different culture and value system, and many others. Both migrants and refugees desire to adapt to their new environment, but they are sometimes overwhelmed. Hence, there is a need to understand these challenges in an attempt to providing adequate and needed support in coping with their present, and consequences of their past trauma. One of the processes of supporting refugees or people with migration background is through life coaching. Life coaching is an emerging phenomenon, especially when examining the concept using the prism of refugees and people with migration background.