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Migration may refer to:

Contents 1 Human migration 1.1 Historical migrations 1.2 Types of migration 2 Animal migration 3 Other migrations 3.1 Science 3.2 Computers 3.3 Fictional 3.4 Body Modification

• Human migration, a change in residence intended to be permanent

• Historical migration, an overview
• Migration Period, also called Barbarian Invasions, occurring in Europe within the period of roughly AD 300-700
• Turkic migration, the migration of Turkic peoples across Asia, Europe and the Middle East between the 6th and 11th centuries
• Bantu migration, the migration of speakers of Bantu languages throughout sub-Saharan Africa
• Muslim conquests, by which Arabs migrated across Asia, Africa and Europe between 632 and 732
• Ostsiedlung, medieval eastward migration and settlement of Germans from modern day Western and Central Germany
• Mongol invasions, the great migrations of Mongol and Turkic tribes under Genghis Khan and his descendants during the 13th century
• Great Migration (Puritan), the two large migrations of Puritans from England to North America around 1630
• Great Serb Migrations, the two large migrations of Serbs in 1692 and 1737 from the Ottoman Empire to the Habsburg Monarchy
• Great Migration (African American), the movement of African Americans out of the Southern United States from 1914 to 1950
• Transatlantic migrations, the movement of settlers across the Atlantic Ocean to North and South America

• Emigration, leaving one's native country to live in another
• Immigration, arriving to live in a new country
• Chain migration, the mechanism by which foreign nationals are allowed to immigrate due to the acquired citizenship of an adult relative
• Forced migration, the coerced movement of a person or persons away from their home or home region
• Free migration, a belief that people should be able to migrate to whatever country they choose, free of substantial barriers
• Illegal immigration, immigration that defies the laws of the arrival country
• Mass migrations, the movement of a large group of people from one geographical area to another
• Political migration, a migration motivated primarily by political interests
• Rural-urban migration, the moving of people from rural areas into cities
• Seasonal human migration, common among agricultural workers
• The activity of nomads, communities that continually move from one place to another

Most animal migrations involve seasonal movements to an area for breeding.

• Bird migration
  • Reverse migration, a phenomenon in bird migration
• Fish migration
• Insect migration
• Diel vertical migration, a daily migration undertaken by some ocean organisms

• Cell migration, in biology
• Planetary migration, in astronomy
• Geophysical migration, in geophysics

• System migration, moving computer programs from one platform to another
• Data migration, moving information between data storage devices
• Process migration, in computer programming

• Great Migrations (Greyhawk), a concept in the Dungeons & Dragons roleplaying game

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