The exponential growth of cities in the second half of the 20th century has highlighted the relationship between urban order and access to rights, which are unequally distributed both spatially and in terms of the possibilities and requirements of travelling through the urban network. Analyses of socio-economic and racial segregation in cities generally focus on the restrictions on the free movement of the peripheral population, barriers that materialise both in the precarious transport system and in more direct interdictions such as racial profiling in police approaches, the high cost of transport fares, etc. Notwithstanding the importance of analysing these barriers as urban borders, the study I am proposing here focuses precisely on the obligation to cross these borders in order to access rights, especially access to jobs. This obligation to commute has an impact on shaping the spatiality of the city in such a way that a (small) part of the population may not move - having access to rights guaranteed in a neighbourhood - precisely because of the obligation imposed on another part of the population to commute to work. This obligation materialises the city s hierarchies and continually shapes its unequal spatiality. This paper therefore analyses the construction of the right to the city based on the mobility/immobility binomial. To this end, its object of research is the centrality of domestic work in the production of spatiality in the metropolitan region of Rio de Janeiro. The underlying hypothesis is that the urban construction of the obligation of mobility/possibility of immobility constructs whiteness as a spatial category, functioning in the unequal distribution of precariousness throughout the city and in access to rights in/to the city.