The Global Lives of German Migrants:Consequences of Inteational Migration Across the Life Course (IMISCOE Research Series)

by: Marcel Erlinghagen (Editor),Andreas Ette (Editor),Norbert F. Schneider (Editor),Nils Witte (Editor)

Publisher: Springer

Edition: 1st ed. 2021

Publication Date: 2021/4/30

Language: English

Print Length: 337 pages

ISBN-10: 3030674975

ISBN-13: 9783030674977

Book Description

Based on the German case, this open access book highlights the increasing flows of migration and the inteationalisation of individual life courses. It analyses the experiences of migration across four central domains - employment and income, partners and families, health and wellbeing, as well as friends and social participation - which potentially have far-reaching consequences for social inequalities and life chances. The book showcases results from an innovative probability sample that is representative of German emigrants who recently moved abroad and remigrants who recently retued from abroad and compares their inteational experiences with the sedentary population in Germany. Stays abroad, whether temporary or permanently, have become the new normal for increasing numbers of people from highly developed welfare states. Unnoticed from mainstream migration studies, these countries are today not only major immigration countries but also important sources of inteational mobility. By providing an empirically founded prism of the global lives of German migrants, this book is a valuable resource for students and researchers of migration, social inequality, and the life course and provides practitioners with insights into these regularly overlooked aspects of inteational migration.

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Based on the German case, this open access book highlights the increasing flows of migration and the inteationalisation of individual life courses. It analyses the experiences of migration across four central domains - employment and income, partners and families, health and wellbeing, as well as friends and social participation - which potentially have far-reaching consequences for social inequalities and life chances. The book showcases results from an innovative probability sample that is representative of German emigrants who recently moved abroad and remigrants who recently retued from abroad and compares their inteational experiences with the sedentary population in Germany. Stays abroad, whether temporary or permanently, have become the new normal for increasing numbers of people from highly developed welfare states. Unnoticed from mainstream migration studies, these countries are today not only major immigration countries but also important sources of inteational mobility. By providing an empirically founded prism of the global lives of German migrants, this book is a valuable resource for students and researchers of migration, social inequality, and the life course and provides practitioners with insights into these regularly overlooked aspects of inteational migration.