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One of the central categories of analysis in the study of international migration are the motives. The article is an attempt to describe the phenomenon of the temporality of migration as an important perspective for providing an overview of the factors determining the decisions to work abroad which entail numerous consequences - particularly the necessity to accept the status of a labour migrant. Temporariness is treated as a specific sort of time frame, as it is separated from the planned biography which is the framework for one’s authentic identity. Depending on the circumstances, i.e. the social and economic conditions in which prospective emigrants operate, temporariness has different meanings in their choices.