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Collective migration

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Collective migration  (COLLECTIVE migration)


Where large groups of individuals or families decide to migrate (801-1*) together collective migration2 will result; in the absence of concerted action, the movement is referred to as individual migration1; where the number of migrants is very large this may be called mass migration3. The term exodus4 may be used for a sudden mass migration caused by some emergency or catastrophe.
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