ABSTRACT

This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book sketches out the changing social conditions that have increased the importance of transnational human capital in recent decades. It can be assumed that the relevance of transnational human capital will continue to grow in the future. The book describes that the amount of economic capital in the parental home is of particular importance when explaining the acquisition of transnational human capital. It also analyses the historical emergence of a field of private providers. The book explains that multilingualism is of particular importance since it is the central precondition for the acquisition of other types of transnational human capital. It identifies the strategies some families from the lower middle classes used to allow their child to complete a stay abroad despite their limited capital endowment and thus attempt to break out of the iron cage of their class membership.