migration

See also: Migration

English

Etymology

From Middle French migration and its source, Latin migrātiō, from the participle stem of migrō (“I migrate”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /maɪˈɡɹeɪʃ(ə)n/
• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

migration (countable and uncountable, plural migrations)

1. An instance of moving to live in another place for a while.
2. Seasonal moving for animals, as birds or fishes, to breed or find a new home.
   • 2013 January 1, Paul Bartel, Ashli Moore, “Avian Migration: The Ultimate Red-Eye Flight”, in American Scientist‎^[1], volume 101, number 1, pages 47–48:

     Many of these classic methods are still used, with some modern improvements. For example, with the aid of special microphones and automated sound detection software, ornithologists recently reported […] that pine siskins (Spinus pinus) undergo an irregular, nomadic type of nocturnal migration.

3. Movement in general.

   The migration of lead from a can to the food inside it can cause lead poisoning.

4. (computing) Instance of changing a platform from an environment to another one.
5. (biochemistry) The movement of cells in particular directions to specific locations.

Derived terms

• chain migration
• internal migration
• mass migration
• relay migration
• stepwise migration

Related terms

• emigration
• migrant
• migrate
• migratory
• immigration
• inmigration, in-migration
• outmigration, out-migration
• porting

Translations

moving a place to live to another

• Arabic: هِجْرَة (ar) f (hijra)
• Armenian: միգրացիա (hy) (migracʻia), գաղթ (hy) (gaġtʻ), գաղթում (hy) (gaġtʻum)
• Catalan: migració f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 徒動／徒动, 徒动 (túdòng), 遷移／迁移 (zh) (qiānyí), 迁移 (zh) (qiānyí)

• Czech: migrace f
• Esperanto: migrado
• Finnish: muutto (fi), migraatio
• French: free (fr), french (fr) pl, migration (fr)
• Galician: migración (gl) f
• Georgian: მიგრაცია (migracia), გადასახლება (gadasaxleba)
• German: Wohnsitzwechsel m, Migration (de) f
• Japanese: 移住 (ja) (いじゅう, ijū)
• Korean: 이주 (ko) (iju)
• Latin: migratio f
• Low German:

  German Low German: Migratschoon f

• Macedonian: преселба f (preselba), селидба f (selidba), миграција f (migracija)
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• Malay: migrasi
• Maori: hekenga
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: migrasjon m

  Nynorsk: migrasjon m

• Polish: migracja (pl) f
• Portuguese: migração (pt) f
• Romanian: migrare (ro), migrație (ro)
• Russian: мигра́ция (ru) f (migrácija), переселе́ние (ru) n (pereselénije)
• Scottish Gaelic: imrich f
• Slovene: migracija f
• Spanish: migración (es) f
• Swedish: migration (sv) c
• Tagalog: ngibambayan
• Telugu: వలస (te) (valasa)
• Thai: อพยพ (th) (òp-pá-yóp)
• Vietnamese: di dân (vi)

seasonal moving of animals, birds or fish

• Armenian: չու (hy) (čʻu) (birds)
• Catalan: migració f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 洄游 (zh) (huíyóu), 遷徙／迁徙 (zh) (qiānxǐ), 迁徙 (zh) (qiānxǐ)

• Finnish: muutto (fi), vaellus (fi)
• Galician: migración (gl) f
• Georgian: მიმოფრენა (mimoprena) (birds), გადაფრენა (gadaprena) (birds), მიგრაცია (migracia)
• German: Migration (de) f, Wanderung (de) f, Vogelwanderung f, Vogelzug (de) m, (partial) Vogelstrich m, Tierwanderung f
• Japanese: 回遊 (かいゆう, kaiyū), 移動 (ja) (いどう, idō)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: کۆچ (koç)

  Northern Kurdish: koç (ku)

  Southern Kurdish: کووچ (kûç)

• Macedonian: преселба f (preselba), миграција f (migracija)
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• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: trekk n, migrasjon m

  Nynorsk: trekk n, migrasjon m

• Portuguese: migração (pt) f
• Romanian: migrație (ro)
• Russian: мигра́ция (ru) f (migrácija)
• Scottish Gaelic: imrich f
• Spanish: migración (es) f
• Swedish: migration (sv) c
• Telugu: వలస (te) (valasa)
• Thai: อพยพ (th) (òp-pá-yóp)
• Vietnamese: di cư (vi)
• Volapük: (birds) bödatäv, (larks) laudatäv

computing: changing a platform from an environment to another one

• Galician: migración (gl) f
• German: Migration (de) f
• Japanese: 移行 (ja) (いこう, ikō)
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• Russian: мигра́ция (ru) f (migrácija)
• Swedish: migration (sv)

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French

Pronunciation

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Noun

migration f (plural migrations)

1. migration (of animals)
2. migration (of people)

Related terms

• migrer

Further reading

• “migration”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Middle French

Noun

migration f (plural migrations)

1. migration (movement from one place to another)

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Swedish

Etymology

From Latin migrātiō, from migrō (“I migrate”) + -ātiō.

Noun

migration c

1. migration; an instance of moving to live in another place for a while, often used in regards of immigration

   Migrationspolitiken har gått överstyr och måste återgå till sansade diskussioner.

   The migration politics has gone overboared and must return to a state of sane discussions.

2. (biology) migration; seasonal moving for animals, as birds or fishes, to breed or find a new home
3. (computing) migration; instance of changing a platform from an environment to another one

Declension

Declension of migration
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	migration	migrationen	migrationer	migrationerna
Genitive	migrations	migrationens	migrationers	migrationernas

Derived terms

• Migrationsverket
• migrationspolitik

Related terms

• migrera
• migrant
• immigration
• emigration

References

• migration in Nationalencyklopedin (needs an authorization fee).