reverse migration
Return to origin
Reverse migration is movement back toward a place of origin, reversing an earlier migration pattern.
In demographics, it often describes people returning to regions their families left—urban residents moving back to rural areas, or descendants of the Great Migration returning to the American South.
In biology, it refers to animals traveling opposite their species' normal migratory direction.
The reverse migration of young professionals to small towns accelerated during the pandemic.
- returnGo back again
- going homeReturning to one's residence
- homecomingReturning to one's origin
- repatriationFormal return to homeland
- return journeyTravel back to origin
backflow · birds · geese · salmon · upstream · seasonal · south · heading north · north · flyway · flock · nesting · instinct · routes · patterns · circular · coming full circle · boomerang
reverse migrationoutmigration
Departure from a region
emigration · exodus · departure · brain drain · diaspora
reverse migrationstaying put
Remaining in place
settlement · remaining · rootedness · permanence · immobility
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