“…Concerning the barriers, the literature stresses that refugees and asylum seekers have often faced trauma and difficult life conditions in their home countries and during the migratory journey (Hynie, 2018;Schultheiss & Davis, 2015;Yakushko, Backhaus, Watson, Ngaruiya, & Gonzalez, 2008). Moreover, once in the host country, they face other barriers at different levels (individual and/or contextual), to their career development, labour market integration, and access to decent work, including language difficulties, lack of knowledge about the labour market and broader culture, unrecognised work experience and diplomas, discrimination, and inadequate support (Atitsogbe, Udayar, & Durante, 2019;Zacher, 2019). All of these barriers limit their access to employment opportunities and decent work (Stewart, 2007).…”