Based on a study done in the Laurentides region, this article presents the life story as a preferred means of accessing the experience, power to act and judgment of immigrants during their process of social and professional integration in Québec. This methodological device offers the possibility of studying the meaning that they give to what they have learned as migrants, to highlight their strategic actions to overcome constraints and to reveal their favourable evaluation of the process. The results allow distancing from the logic of normalizing the obstacles and dissatisfaction that are felt to be inherent in the immigration process and rejection of the tendency to present immigrants as passive victims in the face of difficult situations. They identify positive actions taken during the integration process and the feeling of satisfaction that can result from these actions.