Based on the German case this open access book highlights the increasing flows of migration
and the internationalisation 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 returned from abroad and compares their international
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 international 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 international
migration.
