Polish migrant labor tends to be seasonal and targeted at Germany

According to the 2002 national census, more than 786,000 people have spent at least two months abroad, of whom 80% were there for longer than a year. Most of the people going to work abroad, work in seasonal jobs and a majority of them are registered as unemployed in Poland. Germany is the most popular destination, with 37.4% of Poles working abroad going there. Interestingly, it is the Opolskie voivodship from where most migrant labor hails from, with almost 10 emigrants per 100 residents. (Rzeczpospolita, p. B1) T.J.