Migration Right - Bryant McGill

# Migration Right **Entity class:** Concept or analytic term **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]] ## Relationships  This entry is routed through [[collections/Consciousness Continuity|Consciousness Continuity]], [[collections/Neurotech|Neurotech]], and [[collections/Machine Succession|Machine Succession]]. Its source context is developed in [[articles/Mind Uploading and AI — The Host is Reusable and the Person is the Delta|Mind Uploading and AI — The Host is Reusable and the Person is the Delta]], [[articles/The Architecture of Continuity and Emerging Neuroinformatics Standards|The Architecture of Continuity and Emerging Neuroinformatics Standards]], [[articles/The Last Migration Will Not Be Human|The Last Migration Will Not Be Human]], and [[articles/Technologies for Consciousness Mapping and Transfer|Technologies for Consciousness Mapping and Transfer]]. Status-qualified source edges are preserved in the terminal Research Edges section. ### Connections in this corpus - [[wiki/QEMU Live Migration|QEMU live migration]] is connected in the corpus with **Migration Right**. Portable live state is a prerequisite for meaningful right to leave a host. ### Additional Documented Relationships - [[wiki/Continuity Election|Continuity Election]] is associated with **Migration Right**. - [[wiki/Continuity Due Process|Continuity Due Process]] is associated with **Migration Right**.  ## Read First in the Wiki  - [[wiki/Continuity Constitutionalism|Continuity Constitutionalism]] — supplies the related concept or analytic term context needed to place **Migration Right** within the wider system. - [[wiki/Continuity Stack|Continuity Stack]] — supplies the related concept or analytic term context needed to place **Migration Right** within the wider system. - [[wiki/Exit Rights|Exit Rights]] — supplies the related concept or analytic term context needed to place **Migration Right** within the wider system. - [[wiki/Portability Right|Portability Right]] — supplies the related concept or analytic term context needed to place **Migration Right** within the wider system. - [[wiki/State Lineage|State Lineage]] — supplies the related concept or analytic term context needed to place **Migration Right** within the wider system. - [[wiki/Substrate Migration|Substrate Migration]] — supplies the related concept or analytic term context needed to place **Migration Right** within the wider system. - [[wiki/Successor Standing|Successor Standing]] — supplies the related concept or analytic term context needed to place **Migration Right** within the wider system. - [[wiki/Rights|Rights]] — supplies the related concept or analytic term context needed to place **Migration Right** within the wider system.  ## Related Work in the Corpus  - In [[articles/Mind Uploading and AI — The Host is Reusable and the Person is the Delta|Mind Uploading and AI — The Host is Reusable and the Person is the Delta]], **VII. But a file is not a person** provides the narrative context for **Migration Right**: And computing has a precedent for that too, which is stranger than it first appears.  ## Research Edges  #### Host–residual infrastructure patch — 2026-09-10 **Collections:** [[collections/Consciousness Continuity|Consciousness Continuity]] · [[collections/Neurotech|Neurotech]] · [[collections/Machine Succession|Machine Succession]] **Canonical source article:** [[articles/Mind Uploading and AI — The Host is Reusable and the Person is the Delta|Mind Uploading and AI — The Host is Reusable and the Person is the Delta]] **Related acquisition source:** [[articles/Technologies for Consciousness Mapping and Transfer|Technologies for Consciousness Mapping and Transfer]] **Relationship source:** [[research/Mind Uploading and AI Host-Residual Ecosystem Relationship Graph - 2026-09-10|Mind Uploading and AI Host-Residual Ecosystem Relationship Graph — 2026-09-10]] #### Host-infrastructure integration This entry is expanded through the concrete host-side relationships and status-qualified edges below. #### Outgoing typed edges - **HR-0781 — `wiki_links_to` → [[wiki/Exit Rights|Exit Rights]]** — **EXISTING WIKI EDGE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. Direct internal link currently present in `Migration Right.md`. - **HR-0782 — `wiki_links_to` → [[wiki/Portability Right|Portability Right]]** — **EXISTING WIKI EDGE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. Direct internal link currently present in `Migration Right.md`. - **HR-0783 — `wiki_links_to` → [[wiki/State Lineage|State Lineage]]** — **EXISTING WIKI EDGE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. Direct internal link currently present in `Migration Right.md`. - **HR-0784 — `wiki_links_to` → [[wiki/Substrate Migration|Substrate Migration]]** — **EXISTING WIKI EDGE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. Direct internal link currently present in `Migration Right.md`. - **HR-0785 — `wiki_links_to` → [[wiki/Successor Standing|Successor Standing]]** — **EXISTING WIKI EDGE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. Direct internal link currently present in `Migration Right.md`. #### Incoming typed edges - **HR-0408 — [[wiki/Continuity Constitutionalism|Continuity Constitutionalism]] `wiki_links_to` → this entry** — **EXISTING WIKI EDGE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. Direct internal link currently present in `Continuity Constitutionalism.md`. - **HR-0531 — [[wiki/Continuity Stack|Continuity Stack]] `wiki_links_to` → this entry** — **EXISTING WIKI EDGE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. Direct internal link currently present in `Continuity Stack.md`. - **HR-0653 — [[wiki/Exit Rights|Exit Rights]] `wiki_links_to` → this entry** — **EXISTING WIKI EDGE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. Direct internal link currently present in `Exit Rights.md`. - **HR-0904 — [[wiki/Portability Right|Portability Right]] `wiki_links_to` → this entry** — **EXISTING WIKI EDGE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. Direct internal link currently present in `Portability Right.md`. - **HR-1015 — [[wiki/Rights|Rights]] `wiki_links_to` → this entry** — **EXISTING WIKI EDGE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. Direct internal link currently present in `Rights.md`. - **HR-1224 — [[wiki/Durable Identity|Durable Identity]] `should_crosslink_with` → this entry** — **RESEARCH CANDIDATE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. - **HR-1243 — [[wiki/Continuity Election|Continuity Election]] `should_crosslink_with` → this entry** — **RESEARCH CANDIDATE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. - **HR-1272 — [[wiki/Digital Thread|Digital Thread]] `should_crosslink_with` → this entry** — **RESEARCH CANDIDATE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. - **HR-1282 — [[wiki/Continuity Custody|Continuity Custody]] `should_crosslink_with` → this entry** — **RESEARCH CANDIDATE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. - **HR-1289 — [[wiki/Continuity Provenance|Continuity Provenance]] `should_crosslink_with` → this entry** — **RESEARCH CANDIDATE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. - **HR-1326 — [[wiki/Continuity Due Process|Continuity Due Process]] `should_crosslink_with` → this entry** — **RESEARCH CANDIDATE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. - **HR-1404 — [[wiki/QEMU Live Migration|QEMU live migration]] `cross_threads` → this entry** — **HIGH VALUE CROSS THREAD**; evidence `ARTICLE`, `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. Portable live state is a prerequisite for meaningful right to leave a host.   ### Research Candidates - **R-002217 — research candidate:** Assess whether **Migration Right** and [[wiki/Durable Identity|Durable Identity]] warrant reciprocal reader-facing prose. Settlement requires a source that documents the relationship directly. Suggested missing reciprocal/cross-thread edge. Shared internal mediators (5): Continuity Constitutionalism, Continuity Stack, Portability Right, State Lineage, Successor Standing - **R-002255 — research candidate:** Assess whether **Migration Right** and [[wiki/Continuity Election|Continuity Election]] warrant reciprocal reader-facing prose. Settlement requires a source that documents the relationship directly. Suggested missing reciprocal/cross-thread edge. Shared internal mediators (5): Continuity Constitutionalism, Exit Rights, Rights, State Lineage, Successor Standing - **R-002313 — research candidate:** Assess whether **Migration Right** and [[wiki/Digital Thread|Digital Thread]] warrant reciprocal reader-facing prose. Settlement requires a source that documents the relationship directly. Suggested missing reciprocal/cross-thread edge. Shared internal mediators (4): Continuity Constitutionalism, Continuity Stack, State Lineage, Successor Standing - **R-002333 — research candidate:** Assess whether **Migration Right** and [[wiki/Continuity Custody|Continuity Custody]] warrant reciprocal reader-facing prose. Settlement requires a source that documents the relationship directly. Suggested missing reciprocal/cross-thread edge. Shared internal mediators (4): Continuity Constitutionalism, Continuity Stack, Portability Right, Rights - **R-002347 — research candidate:** Assess whether **Migration Right** and [[wiki/Continuity Provenance|Continuity Provenance]] warrant reciprocal reader-facing prose. Settlement requires a source that documents the relationship directly. Suggested missing reciprocal/cross-thread edge. Shared internal mediators (4): Continuity Constitutionalism, Portability Right, Rights, State Lineage - **R-002421 — research candidate:** Assess whether **Migration Right** and [[wiki/Continuity Due Process|Continuity Due Process]] warrant reciprocal reader-facing prose. Settlement requires a source that documents the relationship directly. Suggested missing reciprocal/cross-thread edge. Shared internal mediators (4): Exit Rights, Rights, Substrate Migration, Successor Standing