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

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 upcoming 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