New migration patterns

Abstract

"There is as yet little scientific knowledge about the migration biographies, routes, and experiences of immigrants living in Germany. But a longitudinal study started in 2013 is to close this gap. Each year, 5,000 people with a migration background and their family members are surveyed for the new IAB-SOEP Migration Sample. Thus, it can be verified when the respondents have lived in Germany, in their countries of birth, and in other countries, and which routes they migrated along. Traditional migration patterns in which migrants permanently spend their lives in a new destination country after moving there are increasingly being replaced by new patterns: particularly since the economic and financial crisis and the EU's eastern enlargement, it has been observed that people migrate repeatedly and gain life experiences in different countries." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

Cite article

Brücker, H., Tucci, I., Bartsch, S., Kroh, M., Trübswetter, P. & Schupp, J. (2014): Neue Muster der Migration. Auf dem Weg nach Deutschland. In: DIW-Wochenbericht, Vol. 81, No. 43, p. 1126-1135.