History Main / TheMigration

* On the ''LetsPlay/DreamSMP'', Snowchester was founded by refugees who fled north after the [[NukeEm final destruction of L'Manberg]] in the Doomsday War and is led by its former president, Tubbo.

* ''WesternAnimation/IceAge'' opens with Scrat being stomped by the animals migrating south to avoid the ice age. [[WesternAnimation/IceAgeTheMeltdown The first sequel]] largely focuses on the animals migrating across the large valley where they live to find a massive ark in which to survive a massive flood caused by an ice dam bursting.

** Now left without a home, the surviving Southlanders decide to migrate to an old Numemorian colony sited by the mouth of Anduin, Pelargir, and start from zero again.

* ''Series/TheLordOfTheRingsTheRingsOfPower'': Now left without a home, the surviving Southlanders decide to migrate to an old Numemorian colony sited by the mouth of Anduin, Pelargir, and start from zero again.

* ''Recap/TheLordOfTheRingsTheRingsOfPower'': Now left without a home, the surviving Southlanders decide to migrate to an old Numemorian colony sited by the mouth of Anduin, Pelargir, and start from zero again.

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* The Quarian Migrant Fleet in ''Franchise/MassEffect''. The quarians were forced off their homeworld by the geth, and ever since have been wandering the galaxy searching for either a way to take their homeworld back, or finding a new planet to settle on (which the Council keeps denying them out of prejudice for having created the geth).

* Several [[Literature/TheIcelandicSagas Norse sagas]]
* ''Literature/TheBible'': specifically, the Literature/BookOfExodus

* The Kushans in the last two books of Literature/BelisariusSeries

* ''Series/BattlestarGalactica1978'' and ''Series/BattlestarGalactica2003''
* Those aliens in ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' (those that have the True Girlfriend that Troi's husband-to-be was looking for)

* ''VideoGame/{{Oddworld}}'': Abe's Exoddus.

* Sometimes disturbances in the steppe lands would cause a billiard ball-like effect where one tribe would migrate to another's territory that would then migrate to someone else's and so on. The most notable example is UsefulNotes/TheMigrationPeriod which resulted in everyone west of the Huns (I.E. everyone) being pushed into the Roman Empire's territory.

* ''Literature/TheBible'': specifically, the book of [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Exodus]]

** This is in some ways the second [[PlanetOfHats hat]] of the Aslan (the first is ProudWarriorRace). Aslan have a biological obsession with land and it is one of the main basis' for status. They regularly send out what they call ''Ihaiti'' fleets of colonists who settle on planets. Sometimes they do so by [[AsskickingEqualsAuthority force]] and at other times they make a treaty with locals who have land to share. A classic treaty of this kind involves [[HiredGuns military service]] for land.

* In Katherine Kerr's Literature/{{Deverry}} series, [[spoiler: the humans migrated to the world of Annwn after being chased out of their homeland by the "cursed Rhwmanes". This ultimately caused the decimation of the Elven people.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/AnAmericanTail''.

** Most of the people in Westeros are in fact descendants of migrants from Essos. The First Men, Andals, and Rhoynar all left Essos for various reasons. Before the Targaryens, there were already Valyrian settlers on Westeros (e.g. House Veloryan), although they were not dragonlords.

** Four centuries ago, the Targaryens left Valyria for Dragonstone because of a vision that the land would fall in a cataclysm. This would prove true with the Doom of Valyria, leaving the Targaryens as the last of the dragonlords. A century later, the Targaryens would invade the Seven Kingdoms of Westeros and become their overlords.
** Most of the people in Westeros are in fact descendants of migrants from Essos. The First Men, Andals, and Rhoynar all left Essos for various reasons. Before the Targaryens, there were already several Valyrian settlers on Westeros (e.g. House Veloryan), although they were not dragonlords.

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* ''WesternAnimation/IceAge'' opens with Scrat being stomped by the animals migrating south to avoid the ice age. ''WesternAnimation/IceAgeTheMeltdown'' largely focuses on the animals migrating across the large valley where they live to find a massive ark in which to survive a massive flood caused by an ice dam bursting.
* ''WesternAnimation/AnAmericanTail''.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheLandBeforeTime'': The first movie centers on a small group of young dinosaurs, shortly after the end of the age of the dinosaurs, crossing bleak wastelands to reach the still-fertile Great Valley.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Dinosaur}}'': The movie follows Aladar and his adopted lemur family joining a massive herd of dinosaurs, survivors of the K-T event, crossing empty wastelands to reach the Nesting Grounds, the only fertile region left.
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* Some times disturbances in the steppelands would cause a billiard ball-like effect where one tribe would migrate to another's territory that would then migrate to someone else's and so on. The most notable example is UsefulNotes/TheMigrationPeriod which resulted in everyone west of the Huns (I.E. everyone) being pushed into the Roman Empire's territory.

* Some times disturbances in the steppelands would cause a billiard ball-like effect where one tribe would migrate to another's territory that would then migrate to someone else's and so on. The most notable example is UsefulNotes/The migration period which resulted in everyone west of the Huns (I.E. everyone) being pushed into the Roman Empire's territory.

* Some times disturbances in the steppelands would cause a billiard ball-like effect where one tribe would migrate to another's territory that would then migrate to someone else's and so on. The most notable example resulted in everyone west of the Huns (I.E. everyone) being pushed into the Roman Empire's territory.

* Happens several times in the Tolkien legendarium, too. First some of the elves migrated to Valinor, then some of them migrated back. Then some men migrated to Númenor, then some of their descendants migrated back. Then Hobbits migrated to the Shire.. there are probably others.

* In Katherine Kerr's Literature/{{Deverry}} series, [[spoiler: the humans migrated to the world of Annwn after being chased out of their homeland by the "cursed Rhwmanes". This ulitmately caused the decimation of the Elven people.]]

* Vilhelm Moberg's ''Literature/TheEmigrants'' series follows a group of poor farmers who migrate from the same Swedish village to settle in Minnesota, trying to escape forces varying from religious persecution to sexual exploitation to poverty so severe that one family's child starves to death.[[note]]Because Moberg based the characters on old letters and diaries he found during his research, these motivations were presumably TruthInTelevision for some Swedish migrants during the 1850's.[[/note]]

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** This is in some ways the second [[PlanetOfHats hat]] of the Aslan(the first is ProudWarriorRace). Aslan have a biological obsession with land and it is one of the main basis' for status. They regularly send out what they call ''Ihaiti'' fleets of colonists who settle on planets. Sometimes they do so by [[AsskickingEqualsAuthority force]] and at other times they make a treaty with locals who have land to share. A classic treaty of this kind involves [[HiredGuns military service]] for land.

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* Some times disturbances in the steppelands would cause a billiard-ball like effect where one tribe would migrate to another's territory that would then migrate to someone else's and so on. The most notable example resulted in everyone west of the Huns (I.E. everyone) being pushed into the Roman Empire's territory.

* In ''Truckers'', the first volume of the ''Literature/NomeTrilogy'', the Store Nomes have to leave the Store because it's being demolished. Since they've long forgotten anything ''exists'' outside the store (they've been there for nearly a century, and their generations are about ten years) this is a problem.

* ''Disney/{{Dinosaur}}'': The movie follows Aladar and his adopted lemur family joining a massive herd of dinosaurs, survivors of the K-T event, crossing empty wastelands to reach the Nesting Grounds, the only fertile region left.

* The Quarian Migrant Fleet in ''Franchise/MassEffect''. The Quarians were forced off their homeworld by the geth, and ever since ehave been wandering the galaxy searching for either a way to take their homeworld back, or finding a new planet to settle on (which the Council keeps denying them out of prejudice for having created the geth).