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