Phrase Hound found 12 phrases and 29 compound words that contain migration. The most common are listed below. Open migration in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 12
- Migration PeriodThe age of mass migration of Germanic people in Europe during the early Middle Ages, circa 376 to 800 CE.
- Great MigrationThe movement of six million African Americans out of the rural Southern United States to the urban Northeast, Midwest and West that occurred in the 20th century.
- net migrationThe difference between the number of immigrants and the number of emigrants.
- internal migrationPermanent movement within a particular country
- chain migrationThe social process by which immigrants from a particular area follow others from that area to a particular destination.
- climate migrationThe relocation of people in response to anthropogenic climate change.
- out-migrationAlternative form of outmigration: The act of emigrating; movement of a person or persons out of a country or national region, for the purpose of permanent relocation of residence.
- Lessepsian migrationThe migration of marine organisms along the Suez Canal.
- time migrationAn algorithm designed for the processing of seismic data in an area where the changes in lateral velocity are not significant, but the structures are complex, consisting of the effect of shifting dipping events on a surface seismic line …
- eco-migrationAlternative spelling of ecomigration: The migration of populations for economic or ecological reasons, often as a result of the deterioration of land quality or a shortage of water.
- interregional migrationPermanent movement from one region of a country to another.
- intraregional migrationPermanent movement within one region of a country.
Compound words 29
- outmigrationSynonym of emigration: The act of emigrating; movement of a person or persons out of a country or national region, for the purpose of permanent relocation of residence.
- remigrationMigration again to another place, or back to the place of emigration.
- abmigrationA northward summer migration of birds without a corresponding southward migration the previous autumn.
- intermigrationreciprocal migration; interchange of dwelling place by migration
- antimigrationOpposing migration.
- comigrationMigration of two materials at the same time.
- hypermigrationA higher than normal amount of migration
- migrationismThe theory that movements of people from one region to another can account for changes in the culture of the destination region.
- automigrationThe transmission of folktales from one region to another, viewed as a self-actuating process rather than something done intentionally by people.
- chemomigrationmigration (typically of cells) in a chemical gradient