The movement of women on the Mozambique-South Africa border for the micro import of goods that supply the informal market in the city of Maputo, an activity carried out by the well-known mukheristas. The exercise of economic activity in the city's “public space” and in small businesses highlights strategies of distinction, difference and status construction, as well as networks of sociability, affection and interdependence. I am interested in the perception of how these women construct cities and subjectivities, that is, a discourse about themselves, based on the transit between the two countries with such similar and discrepant contexts in Southern Africa. It is through traffic, circulation across borders and the production of the city that markers of race and gender become evident as performative strategies of body, wealth, poverty and moral negotiations in the lives of these women. The central objective is to discuss how the mobility and trajectories of Mukheristas and their gender and racial arrangements circulate between different countries. This ongoing research is limited to studies of social markers of difference, in particular, the discussion of gender and race, as well as studies on Africa regarding the production of difference, narratives and the understanding of city constructions.