Individual consequences of international migration in the life course

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In western knowledge economies international migration has evolved into an essential precondition for economic growth and increasingly shapes the distribution of social positions and individual life chances. The aim of this research project is to examine the individual consequences of international migration on further life course, based on the example of emigration from and remigration to Germany. The consequences are analysed along four well established dimensions of life course research in social inequality and stratification: employment and income, well-being and life satisfaction, partnership and family as well as social relationships and social participation. The project is based on the Destination-Origin-Migration-Approach. This concept considers the consequences of migration not only as a question of migrants integration in receiving societies (destination). Additionally, the consequences are analysed by comparison with the non-mobile population of the country of origin (origin) and as a result of the specific trajectories in individual life courses during the migration process (migration). The project is planned as a long-term study over a period of eight years. The empirical analyses rely on data of the German Emigration and Remigration Panel Study (GERPS) which will be established in the course of this project. For the first time, this longitudinal data set provides a comprehensive empirical basis for studying the consequences of international migration on the life course.