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 Erlinghagen and Lisa Mansfeld
12 Out of sight, out of mind? Emigrants'' contact to friends and family members in Germany
Lisa Mansfeld
Part V: Health and Wellbeing
13 Happy migrants? Consequences of migration for different dimensions of life satisfaction
Jean Guedes Auditor and Nikola Sander
14 Healthy Migrants, stressed Mobiles? Consequences of different forms of migration for physical and mental health status
Andreas Ette, Heiko Rüger and Nico Stawarz
Part VI: Friends and Social Participation
15 How strong are the ties of friendship? The consequences of international migration for friendship structures
Jean P. Décieux and Luisa Mörchen
16 Mono-, bi- or transcultural? Reflection of identity constructions of international migrants
Jean P. Décieux and Elke Murdock
Part VII: Methodology
17 Surveying emigrants from highly developed countries: Experiments with different survey modes and incentive strategies
Andreas Ette, Nils Witte, Jean Guedes Auditor, Jean P. Décieux, Frederik Knirsch
and Stefan Zins
18 Is there more than the answer to the question? The potentials of paradata analysis in GERPS
Jean P. Décieux
Part VIII: Conclusion and new research agenda
Andreas Ette, Jean P. Décieux, Marcel Erlinghagen, Norbert F. Schneider and Nils Witte