Arnd-Michael Nohl is a professor of Education Science at Helmut-Schmidt-University.Karin Schittenhelm is a professor of Sociology at the University of Siegen.Oliver Schmidtke is a professor in the Departments of Political Science and History and Director of the Centre for Global Studies at the University of Victoria.Anja Weiss is a professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Duisburg-Essen.

• List of TablesList of FiguresAcknowledgements1. Highly Skilled Migrants: A Puzzling Socioeconomic Reality and a Challenge to Migrations Research2. The Relational Character of Cultural Capital in Migration3. Multidimensional Status Passages: Migration, Labour Market Inclusion, and Private Life Domains4. Aspects of the Multidimensional Status Passage: Phases, Migration Motives, and Cultural Capital among Foreign-trained Migrants in Germany5. Migration Control and Migrants’ Agency6. Symbolic Struggles over Cultural Capital: Racial Discrimination and Symbolic Exclusion7. Up- and Downgrading Cultural Credit: A Cross-Country Comparison8. ConclusionsAppendix IAppendix IIAppendix IIIReferences