There is a transition from high to low degree of satisfaction of perceptions of migration in the destinations for the Three-Gorges migrants.Regression analysis on the factors affecting their perceptions reveals that the adaptation process for the Three-Gorges migrants in the resettled places is divided into three stages:role labeling,role imitating and role assimilating and comparing.In the final stage,feeling of being relatively deprived is a major reason why their degree of satisfaction has gone down.