Migration

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

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

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