The study of the migrativity of fuzzy logic connectives is an important topic in fuzzy logic theory research. The \(\alpha \) -migrativity between conjunction connectives (t-norms, overlap functions, uninorms, and nullnorms) has been extensively studied. Recently, Baczyński et al. (Inf Sci 531:87-96, 2020) proposed the concept of \(\alpha \) -migrativity of fuzzy implications, providing a new perspective for the study of migrativity of fuzzy logic connectives. Meanwhile, grouping functions, as an important class of non-necessarily associative fuzzy logic connectives, have attracted much attention. This paper aims to investigate the \(\alpha \) -migrativity of grouping functions over fuzzy implications. Firstly, the concept of \(\alpha \) -migrativity of grouping functions is introduced. It is shown that the \(\alpha \) -migrativity of grouping functions is the standard dual of the \(\alpha \) -migrativity of overlap functions over 1-product overlap functions, and that the \(\alpha \) -migrativity of grouping functions can be defined using fuzzy implications. Secondly, the concepts of \(\alpha \) -migrativity and generalized \(\alpha \) -migrativity of grouping functions over general fuzzy implications are proposed, and the equivalent characterization of the \(\alpha \) -migrativity of grouping functions over fuzzy implications is given by the ordinal sum of grouping functions. Finally, the \(\alpha \) -migrativity of grouping functions over several specific fuzzy implications is characterized by the additive generator pair and ordinal sum of grouping functions.