EN
Issues related to labor migration are the subject of interest to both scientists and the general public. Despite many researches focused on the problem, many important questions still remain unanswered. One of them is the scale of international migration from the cities of a region with unprecedented scale and significance of economic migration – Opole Voivodeship. Taking this into consideration it was decided to survey the scale and form of emigration of inhabitants of the capital of the province – Opole. Research conducted in the city included a group of approx. 3,600 parents of primary school children. The results of this study helped to determine the scale of the phenomenon both permanent and temporary emigration, differences in the scale of emigration in the various districts of the city and the consequences of economic migration of parents to situations and behavior of their children.