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This paper gathered information on perception, the extent of integration, and challenges of the Beninoise migrants in their host community in Nigeria, to ascertain if the perceptions can be regarded as having positive impact, negative, or both. 10 in-depth interviews and 384 household surveys were undertaken in August 2017 to generate data for the study. The findings show that host communities contend that migrants influence social vices and increase the burden on public facilities in the community. While migrants are perceived to negatively affect chances of job opportunities for members of the host, they are also providers of cheap labour. Thus perception in this study is both positive and negative. The migrants have been partly integrated through their involvement in some community activities while increasing incidences of floods are perceived as the most challenging for migrants in the host community.