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Migration

Meaning in history, with examples

/maɪˈɡreɪʃn/nounCore term

In history, migration means: The movement of people from one place to another to live, either within a country or across borders, alone or in large groups.

In Turkish: göç

How it is used

Historians study the causes and effects of migration: push and pull factors, forced migration, labour migration and the communities migrants build. Emigration is leaving a country and immigration is arriving in one.

Example sentences

  1. Labour migration from Turkey to West Germany began on a large scale after 1961.

  2. The migrations of late antiquity changed the map of Europe.

Common collocations

  • mass migration
  • forced migration
  • labour migration
  • rural-to-urban migration
  • the Migration Period
  • urbanizationThe growth of towns and cities, and the movement of a growing share of the population from the countryside into urban areas.
  • censusAn official count of a population carried out by a state, usually recording details such as age, sex, household, occupation or property.
  • oral historyThe collection and study of people's spoken memories of the past, usually through recorded interviews, and the recordings that result.
  • social classA group of people in a society who share a similar economic position, such as wealth, occupation or education, and often similar status and opportunities.

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