Synonyms for migration
maɪˈgreɪ ʃənmi·gra·tion

Princeton's WordNet

1. migrationnoun

   the movement of persons from one country or locality to another

2. migrationnoun

   a group of people migrating together (especially in some given time period)

3. migrationnoun

   (chemistry) the nonrandom movement of an atom or radical from one place to another within a molecule

4. migrationnoun

   the periodic passage of groups of animals (especially birds or fishes) from one region to another for feeding or breeding

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1. migrationnoun

   Synonyms:
   change of residence (from one country to another)

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1. List of paraphrases for "migration":

   immigration, migrations, migratory, migrating, migrant, emigration, migrate, migración, migrants, out-migration, exodus

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1. Chris Lane:

   This is really the year of mass market migration, so I think it's a necessary step to make that happen.

2. Lopez Obrador:

   We respect president Trump's position, and we are going to help. That is, this is a problem of the United States, or it's a problem of the Central American countries. It's not up to us Mexicans, no, i just emphasize that migration flows of Mexicans to the United States are very low, a lot lower.

3. Kristie Wilder:

   Population growth has been slowing for years because of lower birth rates and decreasing net international migration, all while mortality rates are rising due to the aging of the nation’s population, now, with the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, this combination has resulted in an historically slow pace of growth.

4. John Kirby:

   We’ll be talking about issues of migration, which affects us both. There are more people on the move in this hemisphere than there have been since World War Two and that affects both our countries.

5. The United:

   Making a decision to leave their own country has to be the very last resort, they are unable to meet the resources, recovery and relief needs on a yearly basis, when they experience calamities like landslides, flooding and hurricanes that we're seeing happening more frequently -- and so we're going to be seeing more forms of migration.