 <p>You are using django 1.6.5, in this version migrations were not introduced so its may give you error on running migrations because django rest framework auth token migration tries to import migrations from django.db</p> <p>Upgrade your south package from 0.8.4 to 1.0.1 version that will solve your problem Please check the following link related to south version 1.0.1 <a href="http://south.readthedocs.org/en/latest/releasenotes/1.0.html" rel="nofollow">http://south.readthedocs.org/en/latest/releasenotes/1.0.html</a></p>