The influence of different characteristics of youth in Serbia (aged 19 to 35 years) on thinking and acting in the direction of emigration have been analyzed in the paper. The fact that young people’s emigration considering and/or planning is very present even one decade after the unblocked postsocialist transformation of Serbian society testifies for low legitimacy of the social order in the perception of youth, as well as their poor integration in the society. The basis for this delegitimization of the social order can be mainly found in the hardships of the transition from education to employment and losing trust in education as the key factor of youth’s social promotion.