Contemporary migrations

Hukou (; ) is a system of household registration used in the People's Republic of China. The system itself is more properly called huji (; ), and has origins in ancient China; hukou is the registration of an individual in the system. A household registration record officially identifies a person as a permanent resident of an area and includes identifying information such as name, parents, spouse and date of birth. A hukou can also refer to a family register in many contexts since the household register () is issued per family, and usually includes the births, deaths, marriages, divorces, and m

300px|thumb|Scene of the 2009 Chunyun period inside Beijing West railway station, China Chunyun (; literally translated as “Spring transportation”), also referred to as the Spring Festival travel rush or the Chunyun period, is a period of travel in China with extremely high traffic load around the time of the Chinese New Year. The travel season in China usually begins 15 days before New Year's Day and lasts for around 40 days. In 2016 it was predicted that there would be 2.9 billion passenger journeys during that year's Chunyun season. It has been called the largest annual human migration in t

ongoing migration of Russian citizens in response to the 2022 invasion of Ukraine

political crisis and ongoing migrant crisis

overview of emigration from Africa