Migration, migratory, or migrate may refer to:

Human migration

* Human migration, physical movement by humans from one region to another **

International migration International migration occurs when people cross state boundaries and stay in the host state for some minimum length of the time. Migration occurs for many reasons. Many people leave their home countries in order to look for economic opportunities ...

, 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 Bird migration is the regular seasonal movement, often north and south along a flyway, between breeding and wintering grounds. Many species of bird migrate. Migration carries high costs in predation and mortality, including from hunting by ...

* 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 Collective cell migration describes the movements of group of cells and the emergence of collective behavior from cell-environment interactions and cell-cell communication. Collective cell migration is an essential process in the lives of multicellu ...

, describing the movements of group of cells

Physics and chemistry

* Molecular diffusion, in physics *

Migration (chemistry) In organic chemistry, a rearrangement reaction is a broad class of organic reactions where the carbon skeleton of a molecule is rearranged to give a structural isomer of the original molecule. Often a substituent moves from one atom to another ato ...

, 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 Electrophoresis, from Ancient Greek ἤλεκτρον (ḗlektron, "amber") and φόρησις (phórēsis, "the act of bearing"), is the motion of dispersed particles relative to a fluid under the influence of a spatially uniform electric fie ...

electromigration Electromigration is the transport of material caused by the gradual movement of the ions in a conductor due to the momentum transfer between conducting electrons and diffusing metal atoms. The effect is important in applications where high direc ...

thermodiffusion Thermophoresis (also thermomigration, thermodiffusion, the Soret effect, or the Ludwig–Soret effect) is a phenomenon observed in mixtures of mobile particles where the different particle types exhibit different responses to the force of a temper ...

, sedimentation, in physical chemistry and materials * Planetary migration, the alteration of the satellite's orbital parameters

Information technology

Migration (virtualization) In the context of virtualization, where a ''guest'' simulation of an entire computer is actually merely a software virtual machine (VM) running on a ''host'' computer under a hypervisor, migration (also known as teleportation) is the process by wh ...

, the process by which a running virtual machine is moved from one physical host to another *

Content migration Content migration is the process of moving information stored on a given computer information system (IS) to a new system. The IS may be a Web content management system (CMS), a digital asset management (DAM), or a document management system (DMS) ...

, 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 Scale the Summit is an American instrumental progressive metal band based out of Houston, Texas. It formed in 2004 and signed to Prosthetic Records. The band is influenced by other progressive acts such as Cynic and Dream Theater. The band gain ...

* ''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 Karim Alrawi (Arabic كريم الراوي) is a writer born in Alexandria, Egypt. He has taught at universities in the UK, Egypt, US and Canada. He was an International Writing Fellow at the University of Iowa and taught creative writing at the ...

, a stage play and winner of the John Whiting Award * ''Migration'' (film), a 2014 animated film by Mark Lomond and Johanne Ste-Marie * ''Migration'', an upcoming film from Illumination Entertainment

Other uses

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