The dissertation Identity projects reconfigurations in the academic enviromment: Being there acting as here or being here acting as there has the objective of analyzing the construction of the identities of a Brazilian immigrant that has been to the United States intending to achieve academic education - Doctorate degree. Using an approach based in the experience narratives and narratives of life stories, we have managed to identify the coherence systems adopted by the interviewee to construct their selves during their narratives, mainly based on their assessment. Therefore, we have organized the interviewee´s speeches in narrative-thematic macro- blocks showing the way upon which he organizes his experiences; and it is during a series of narrative micro-blocks that he makes the configurations and reconfigurations of his identities. During the search for coherence construction, the interviewee shows he needs to deal not only with the academic environment to which he is introduced, but also with socio-cultural values of host and origin society, constructing identities that positively define them being there, in academic / social life intersite, and, coming back to the here, when he reconfigure his identities based on experiences lived there. The research contributes to a poorly explored universe as it refers to immigrant life stories, which initially have as project identity the academic education during the migration process.