This paper deals with the ways stigmatised groups living in different capital cities of countries of the South resort to various forms of invisibility in public spaces. Such groups are either migrants, ethnic and internal ones as well as foreigners, racialised minorities or prostitutes. The main local political contexts are characterized by domination processes such as authoritarianism, or social and spatial marginalization based on stigmas. In such contexts in which it is often too painful or even dangerous to criticize injustices, subaltern and subordinated people can use invisibility as a strategy embedded in their everyday life as a way to consolidate their presence in the city and to integrate the city life by behaving like legitimate city dwellers. These people do not mobilize politically speaking nor protest as a group as a whole. They do not try to overcome the stigma but they develop strategies based on anonymization and normalization in order to be seen as ordinary urban dwellers. These strategies can be observed in spatial practices such as routines or daily urban experiences. The main purpose of this paper is to analyse the forms of these invisibility strategies in urban spaces at different levels and at different moments of the day, of the week, of the year, taking temporality into account. The Authors argue that these groups can accede to quiet ways of being urban dwellers despite their very vulnerability. Moreover invisibility strategies are the only way to assert their place in the urban places and to accede to legitimacy in the eyes of the other urban dwellers. From this perspective the right to the city is considered neither as a normative nor a reclamatory process but as a right to discretion, to be there and to live in the city as anyone else. The Authors use field-based analyses conducted under qualitative methods such as interviews and observations in three cities, Mexico City (Mexico), Maputo (Mozambique) and Rio de Janeiro (Brazil). By doing this they seek to make theoretical and empirical connections between Latin-American and African contexts which are often separated in the academic literature.