V. S. Naipaul’s fiction is replete with the concerns and preoccupations of the displaced, dispossessed migrant in an alien landscape. In fact, what makes Naipaul’s voice the ultimate expression of the condition of migrancy, is his abiding and obsessive preoccupation with the migrant figure and the vicissitudes of the migrant’s life. The present study suggests, through an analysis of V.S. Naipaul’s novels The Mystic Masseur and The Mimic Men, that the migrant identity emerges from the necessity to reorient oneself “somewhere between the lost past and the immediate present” and somewhere away “from the unsettled, difficult realities of daily life”. This chapter also explores how the originality of the migrant is lost in the mists created by the distance in time and place, and, by the migrant’s need to identify with the new environment and, how the new identity of the migrant that emerges in the process, embodies mimicry and alienation, which are necessary conditions for the emergence and maintenance of migrant identity.