external migration: moving to a different state, country, or continent. emigration: leaving one country to move to another. immigration: moving into a new country. return migration: moving back to where you came from.
What is an example of migration today?
For example, while the single largest migration path used to be of Mexicans coming to the United States primarily for better economic opportunity, now it is Syrians displaced by conflict fleeing to Turkey. Refugees drive migration today.
What is an example of human migration?
The Great Migration, the flight of over a million African Americans from the rural South to the industrial North following the outbreak of World War I, is an example of a human migration that occurred within the same country.