Grounded on deconstruction, this paper stresses on the changes in migrants’ identity. It assesses the ambivalent impacts of migration on identity (re)formation in Catherine Carmier. For a community that considers migration as a quest for education and employment to improve its life conditions in the plantation, migration may have non expected effects on the identity of characters. They encompass emotional detachment, acculturation, the loss of faith and identity crisis. These facets of the migrant identity set a mood of tensions within the black community. However, migration may foster appraisive identity features. The migrant self-assertiveness informs the way he perceives himself. Migration instills progressive traits on the individual’s identity through interracial love transgression, political commitment, critical awareness, and empowerment. Identity (re)construction often fosters interracial tensions between black and creole people.