<p>Part I: Introduction</p><p>1 Between origin and destination: German emigrants and the individual consequences of their global lives</p><p>Marcel Erlinghagen, Jean P. Décieux, Andreas Ette, Norbert F. Schneider and Nils Witte</p><p>2 Surveying across borders: The experiences of the German Emigration and Remigration Panel Study</p><p>Andreas Ette, Jean P. Décieux, Marcel Erlinghagen, Jean Guedes Auditor, Norbert F. Schneider and Nils Witte</p>Part II: Who are the German international migrants?<p></p><p>3 The demographics of German emigration: Historical developments, geographical contexts and social structures of emigrants, remigrants, internal migrants and non-migrants</p><p>Marcel Erlinghagen, Andreas Ette, and Jean Guedes Auditor</p><p>4 Why are they moving? Motives of migration through the life course</p><p>Nikola Sander </p><p>5 The formation of a transnational class? Previous migration experiences, migration intentions and social status</p><p>Andreas Ette, Lenore Sauer and Margit Fauser</p><p>6 Are they the adventurers? Comparing the personality structure of international migrants and non-migrants</p><p>Jean P. Décieux, Marcel Erlinghagen, Christiane Lübke and Gert G. Wagner</p><p>Part III: Employment and Income</p><p>7 Brain drain or brain circulation? The labor market integration of German emigrants and German remigrants</p><p>Andreas Ette and Nils Witte</p><p>8 Affluent lives beyond the border? Individual career consequences of migration</p><p>Nils Witte and Jean Guedes Auditor</p><p>9 Reproduction of social inequalities? Social selectivity of emigration and its consequences for intergenerational mobility</p><p>Nils Witte, Andreas Ette and Reinhard Pollak</p><p>Part IV: Partner and Family</p><p>10 To follow or not to follow? The International Migration of Couples:</p><p>Timing – Motives – Outcomes</p><p>Marcel Erlinghagen</p><p>11 Disruption of family lives? International migration, family formation, and breakup</p><p>Helen Baykara-Krumme, Marcel Erlinghagen and Lisa Mansfeld</p><p>12 Out of sight, out of mind? Emigrants’ contact to friends and family members in Germany</p><p>Lisa Mansfeld</p><p>Part V: Health and Wellbeing</p><p>13 Happy migrants? Consequences of migration for different dimensions of life satisfaction</p><p>Jean Guedes Auditor and Nikola Sander</p><p>14 Healthy Migrants, stressed Mobiles? Consequences of different forms of migration for physical and mental health status</p><p>Andreas Ette, Heiko Rüger and Nico Stawarz</p><p>Part VI: Friends and Social Participation</p><p>15 How strong are the ties of friendship? The consequences of international migration for friendship structures</p><p>Jean P. Décieux and Luisa Mörchen</p><p>16 Mono-, bi- or transcultural? Reflection of identity constructions of international migrants</p><p>Jean P. Décieux and Elke Murdock</p><p>Part VII: Methodology</p><p>17 Surveying emigrants from highly developed countries: Experiments with different survey modes and incentive strategies</p><p>Andreas Ette, Nils Witte, Jean Guedes Auditor, Jean P. Décieux, Frederik Knirsch</p><p>and Stefan Zins</p><p>18 Is there more than the answer to the question? The potentials of paradata analysis in GERPS</p><p>Jean P. Décieux</p><p>Part VIII: Conclusion and new research agenda</p><p>Andreas Ette, Jean P. Décieux, Marcel Erlinghagen, Norbert F. Schneider and Nils Witte</p><p> </p><p> </p>