# Migration Right **Domain:** Continuity Rights / Mobility / Infrastructure **Doc Type:** Canonical Rights Concept **Maturity:** Proposed ## Definition A **migration right** is the claim of a continuity-bearing subject to request, contest and complete movement to a compatible substrate, custodian or jurisdiction without arbitrary loss of identity, state, relationships, standing or service. ## Requirements Meaningful migration requires a portable state package, documented semantics, provenance, compatible execution, transferable credentials, destination disclosure, integrity verification, funding and continuity during the transfer. It also requires a rule for whether the source remains, is suspended or is destroyed. Migration is not always transport of an unchanged person. Copying, interruption, re-encoding and environmental change may produce a successor. The process must preserve [[wiki/State Lineage|State Lineage]], disclose uncertainty and protect [[wiki/Successor Standing|Successor Standing]] where numerical identity remains unsettled. ## Limits The right does not compel every destination to execute an unsafe workload or grant unrestricted access. A destination may impose proportionate, reviewable conditions, but a source custodian cannot make export technically unusable or retaliate by destroying the only viable state. ## Key Insight **Migration is mobility only when a subject can cross the boundary without being reduced to an unusable export or an unacknowledged replacement.** ## See Also [[wiki/Portability Right|Portability Right]], [[wiki/Exit Rights|Exit Rights]], [[wiki/Orderly Transfer|Orderly Transfer]], [[wiki/Substrate Migration|Substrate Migration]]