diff --git a/django/db/migrations/writer.py b/django/db/migrations/writer.py
index 75a44a8b95..e23f15dd77 100644
--- a/django/db/migrations/writer.py
+++ b/django/db/migrations/writer.py
@@ -7,6 +7,8 @@ from django.utils import six
 from django.db import models
 from django.db.models.loading import cache
 from django.db.migrations.loader import MigrationLoader
+from django.utils.encoding import force_text
+from django.utils.functional import Promise
 
 
 class MigrationWriter(object):
@@ -111,6 +113,9 @@ class MigrationWriter(object):
         # Simple types
         elif isinstance(value, six.integer_types + (float, six.binary_type, six.text_type, bool, type(None))):
             return repr(value), set()
+        # Promise
+        elif isinstance(value, Promise):
+            return repr(force_text(value)), set()
         # Django fields
         elif isinstance(value, models.Field):
             attr_name, path, args, kwargs = value.deconstruct()
diff --git a/tests/migrations/test_writer.py b/tests/migrations/test_writer.py
index 05757bb238..ff6fc47737 100644
--- a/tests/migrations/test_writer.py
+++ b/tests/migrations/test_writer.py
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ from django.utils import six
 from django.test import TestCase
 from django.db.migrations.writer import MigrationWriter
 from django.db import models, migrations
+from django.utils.translation import ugettext_lazy as _
 
 
 class WriterTests(TestCase):
@@ -58,6 +59,7 @@ class WriterTests(TestCase):
         self.assertSerializedEqual(["a", 2, True, None])
         self.assertSerializedEqual(set([2, 3, "eighty"]))
         self.assertSerializedEqual({"lalalala": ["yeah", "no", "maybe"]})
+        self.assertSerializedEqual(_('Hello'))
         # Datetime stuff
         self.assertSerializedEqual(datetime.datetime.utcnow())
         self.assertSerializedEqual(datetime.datetime.utcnow)