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Migration

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Migration, migratory, or migrate may refer to:

Human migration

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  • 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

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Biology

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Physics and chemistry

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Information technology

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  • 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

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Music

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Other media

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Other uses

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

See also

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