Part I: Introduction
1 Between origin and destination: German emigrants and the individual consequences of their global lives
Marcel Erlinghagen, Jean P. Décieux, Andreas Ette, Norbert F. Schneider and Nils Witte
2 Surveying across borders: The experiences of the German Emigration and Remigration Panel Study
Andreas Ette, Jean P. Décieux, Marcel Erlinghagen, Jean Guedes Auditor, Norbert F. Schneider and Nils Witte
Part II: Who are the German international migrants?
3 The demographics of German emigration: Historical developments, geographical contexts and social structures of emigrants, remigrants, internal migrants and non-migrants
Marcel Erlinghagen, Andreas Ette, and Jean Guedes Auditor
4 Why are they moving? Motives of migration through the life course
Nikola Sander
5 The formation of a transnational class? Previous migration experiences, migration intentions and social status
Andreas Ette, Lenore Sauer and Margit Fauser
6 Are they the adventurers? Comparing the personality structure of international migrants and non-migrants
Jean P. Décieux, Marcel Erlinghagen, Christiane Lübke and Gert G. Wagner
Part III: Employment and Income
7 Brain drain or brain circulation? The labor market integration of German emigrants and German remigrants
Andreas Ette and Nils Witte
8 Affluent lives beyond the border? Individual career consequences of migration
Nils Witte and Jean Guedes Auditor
9 Reproduction of social inequalities? Social selectivity of emigration and its consequences for intergenerational mobility
Nils Witte, Andreas Ette and Reinhard Pollak
Part IV: Partner and Family
10 To follow or not to follow? The International Migration of Couples:
Timing - Motives - Outcomes
Marcel Erlinghagen
11 Disruption of family lives? International migration, family formation, and breakup
Helen Baykara-Krumme, Marcel Erl
