Human Migration

• Human migration, a person leaving its own home to go to a new place or residence with different reasons and also different effects.

Historical Migrations

• Bantu migration, the migration of speakers of Bantu languages at sub-Saharan Africa
• Great Migration (African American), the migration of African Americans out of the Southern United States from 1914 to 1950.
• 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.
• Historical migration, an overview.
• Migration Period, also called Barbarian Invasions, occurring in Europe within the period of roughly AD 300-700.
• Mongol invasions, the great migrations of Mongol and Turkic tribes under Genghis Khan and his descendants during the 13th century.
• 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.
• Transatlantic migrations, the movement of settlers across the Atlantic Ocean to North and South America.
• Turkish migration, the migration of Turkish peoples across Asia, Europe and the Middle East between the 6th and 11th centuries.

Types of Migration

• Family reunification, the mechanism by which foreign nationals are allowed to immigrate due to the acquired citizenship of an adult relative.
• Emigration, leaving one's native country to live in another.
• 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.
• Immigration, arriving to live in a new country.
• 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.
• Urbanization, the moving of people from rural areas into cities.
• Seasonal human migration, Migration which is held by season changes.
• Daily commuting.
• The activity of nomads, communities that continually move from one place to another.

Animal Migration

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

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

Science

• Cell migration, in biology
• Geophysical migration, in geophysics
• Microscopic motion of material caused by an external force, distinct from spontaneous diffusion, for example electromigration, electrophoresis, sedimentation, in physical chemistry and materials science.
• Planetary migration, in astronomy