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Wikipedia / 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

Plant migration, see Seed dispersal, the movement or transport of seeds away from the parent plant

Cell migration, a process in the development and maintenance of multicellular organisms

Physics and chemistry

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

Other media

Other uses

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

See also