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Migration

Migration is the movement of people in order to relocate their lives from one place to another. People migrate for multiple reasons, for example for of fear of violent conflict, to study, for love, for a new job or for family reunification. Other reasons can be the so-called lifestyle migration, which means that individuals migrate because another place offers more attractive living conditions. Migration usually is considered to involve the crossing of national borders, therefore meaning international migration. However, people can migrate within national borders as well. At which point exactly a stay in a different country or regions turns into migration, is contested.