Migration

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Migration, migratory, or migrate may refer to:

Human migration

• Human migration, physical movement by humans from one region to another
  • International migration, when peoples cross state boundaries and stay in the host state for some minimum length of time

Natural sciences

Biology

• Migration (ecology), the large-scale movement of species from one environment to another
  • Animal migration
  • Bird migration
• Plant migration, see Seed dispersal, the movement or transport of seeds away from the parent plant
• Gene migration, a process in evolution and population genetics
• Cell migration, a process in the development and maintenance of multicellular organisms
  • Collective cell migration, describing the movements of group of cells

Physics and chemistry

• Molecular diffusion, in physics
• Migration (chemistry), type of reaction in organic chemistry
• Seismic migration, in seismic and ground penetrating radar data processing
• Microscopic motion of material caused by an external force, distinct from spontaneous diffusion, including drift current, electrophoresis, electromigration, thermodiffusion, sedimentation, in physical chemistry and materials
• Planetary migration, the alteration of the satellite's orbital parameters

Information technology

• Migration (virtualization), the process by which a running virtual machine is moved from one physical host to another
• Content migration, the process of moving information to a new system
• Data migration, the process of transferring data between storage types, formats, or computer systems
• PC migration, the process of transferring the entire user environment between two computer systems
• Schema migration, the management of incremental, reversible changes to relational database schemas
• Software migration, the conversion, rewriting or porting of a legacy system to a modern computer system
• System migration, the tasks involved when moving data and applications from current hardware to new hardware

Arts and media

Music

• "Migrate" (song), a 2008 song from Mariah Carey's album E=MC²
• Migration (The Amboy Dukes album)
• Migration (Antonio Sánchez album), a 2007 album by Antonio Sánchez
• Migration (Bonobo album), 2017 album by Bonobo
• Migration (Creative Source album), the second album by Los Angeles, California-based R&B group Creative Source
• Migration (Dave Grusin album)
• The Migration, album by Scale the Summit
• Migrations (album), a 2006 album by The Duhks

Other media

• Migrations, a 2000 photo essay and book by Sebastião Salgado
• Migrations, 1929 novel by Miloš Crnjanski
• Migrations (film), a 1988 Yugoslav film based on the novel
• Migrations, by Karim Alrawi, a stage play and winner of the John Whiting Award
• Migration (2014 film), an animated film by Mark Lomond and Johanne Ste-Marie
• Migration (2023 film), an animated film

Other uses

• Piercing migration, in body modification, a process that occurs when a body piercing moves from its initial location

See also

• Immigration
• Emigration
• Migrant (disambiguation)
• Great Migration (disambiguation)
• Migration period, a period in European history that saw the fall of the Western Roman Empire and large-scale migrations

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