Great Migration
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Great Migration, Great Migrations, or The Great Migration may refer:

In history:
  • Great Migration of Puritans from England to New England (1620–1643)
  • Great Serb Migrations from the Ottoman Empire to the Habsburg Monarchy (1690 and 1737)
  • Great Migration of Canada
    Great Migration of Canada
    The Great Migration of Canada was a period of high immigration to Canada from 1815 to 1850, involving over 800,000 immigrants...

    , increased migration to Canada, (approximately 1815–1850)
  • Great Transatlantic migrations
    Transatlantic migrations
    Transatlantic migration refers to the movement of people across the Atlantic Ocean in order to settle on the continents of North and South America. It usually refers to migrations after Christopher Columbus' voyage to the Americas in 1492...

    , a voluntary mass migration of Europeans to the Americas (1836–1916), including over 30 million Europeans who migrated to the United States
  • Great Migration, resulting from the 1947 Partition of British India
    Partition of India
    The Partition of India was the partition of British India on the basis of religious demographics that led to the creation of the sovereign states of the Dominion of Pakistan and the Union of India on 14 and 15...

  • African American "Great Migrations":
    • The original Great Migration
      Great Migration (African American)
      The Great Migration was the movement of 6 million blacks out of the Southern United States to the Northeast, Midwest, and West from 1910 to 1970. Some historians differentiate between a Great Migration , numbering about 1.6 million migrants, and a Second Great Migration , in which 5 million or more...

       from the southern United States to the northern United States (1910–1930)
    • The Second Great Migration
      Second Great Migration (African American)
      The Second Great Migration was the migration of more than 5 million African Americans from the South to the North, Midwest and West. It took place from 1941, through World War II, and lasted until 1970. It was much larger and of a different character than the first Great Migration...

       from the southern United States to the northern and western United States (1941–1970)
    • The New Great Migration
      New Great Migration
      The New Great Migration is the term for demographic changes from 1965 to the present which are a reversal of the previous 35-year trend of black migration within the United States...

      , reverse migration from the North, Midwest and the West to the southern United States (1965–present)
  • The Great Migration of 1843, the first large group of settlers to travel via the Oregon Trail
    Oregon Trail
    The Oregon Trail is a historic east-west wagon route that connected the Missouri River to valleys in Oregon and locations in between.After 1840 steam-powered riverboats and steamboats traversing up and down the Ohio, Mississippi and Missouri rivers sped settlement and development in the flat...

     to the Oregon Country
    Oregon Country
    The Oregon Country was a predominantly American term referring to a disputed ownership region of the Pacific Northwest of North America. The region was occupied by British and French Canadian fur traders from before 1810, and American settlers from the mid-1830s, with its coastal areas north from...



In media:
  • Great Migrations
    Great Migrations
    Great Migrations is a seven-episode nature documentary television miniseries that airs on the National Geographic Channel, featuring the great migrations of animals across the globe. This is truly one of the greatest pieces of nature documentary there is. The producer, David Hamlin, has won 3...

    , 2010 National Geographic nature documentary television miniseries
  • The Great Migration (album)
    The Great Migration (album)
    The Great Migration is the debut album from Wu-Tang affiliate producer and rapper Bronze Nazareth, released through Dreddy Kruger's Think Differently imprint on Babygrande Records....

    , 2006 album by rapper Bronze Nazareth
  • Great Migrations (Greyhawk)
    Great Migrations (Greyhawk)
    In the World of Greyhawk campaign setting for the Dungeons & Dragons roleplaying game, the Great Migrations is a general term applying to the migration of great hordes of Oeridians and Suel humans into the Flanaess from western Oerik...

    , fictional migrations of the Oeridians and Suloise in the World of Greyhawk campaign setting for the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game

See also

  • Great Trek
    Great Trek
    The Great Trek was an eastward and north-eastward migration away from British control in the Cape Colony during the 1830s and 1840s by Boers . The migrants were descended from settlers from western mainland Europe, most notably from the Netherlands, northwest Germany and French Huguenots...

  • Migration Period
    Migration Period
    The Migration Period, also called the Barbarian Invasions , was a period of intensified human migration in Europe that occurred from c. 400 to 800 CE. This period marked the transition from Late Antiquity to the Early Middle Ages...

  • Māori migration canoes
    Maori migration canoes
    Various Māori traditions recount how their ancestors set out from their homeland in great ocean-going canoes . Some of these traditions name a mythical homeland called Hawaiki....

  • Mass migration
  • Forced migration
    Forced migration
    Forced migration refers to the coerced movement of a person or persons away from their home or home region...

  • Human migration
    Human migration
    Human migration is physical movement by humans from one area to another, sometimes over long distances or in large groups. Historically this movement was nomadic, often causing significant conflict with the indigenous population and their displacement or cultural assimilation. Only a few nomadic...

  • Indo-Aryan migration
    Indo-Aryan migration
    Models of the Indo-Aryan migration discuss scenarios of prehistoric migrations of the proto-Indo-Aryans to their historically attested areas of settlement in the northwest of the Indian subcontinent...

  • Great Upheaval
    Great Upheaval
    The Expulsion of the Acadians was the forced removal by the British of the Acadian people from present day Canadian Maritime provinces: Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Prince Edward Island...

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