The focus of this article concentrates on migrants of the second and third generation, who did not experience the migration process themselves, but who deal with this in their everyday lives in multiple ways. In their transnational references, they represent the »opening of local places to the world« and express the associated cosmopolitanisation of everyday life, the discontinuities, overlaps and simultaneous connectedness. »Post-migrant« reconstructions and life strategies are embedded into world-wide communication and a cosmopolitan pluralisation of daily life. This »dynamic of a de-spatialisation« provokes even new perspectives on migration. Biographical examples of young people demonstrate that their strategies of a positioning go far beyond the local. In such processes, cultural orientations and their significance for biographical drafts are shifting. Their cultural practice is an act of performance, requiring a specific cognitive flexibility that puts into question the national paradigm. Everyday life in a globalized world becomes a field for experimentation and (cultural) learning: migration is movement and movement means education.

Migration globalization Post-migrant generation Life strategies Biography

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