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This article attempts to investigate migrants’ access to the city on the basis of one case, that of Djénéba Touré, an undocumented woman from a medium-sized town in Mali who arrived in the Paris metropolitan area in 2011. The focus on a single residential trajectory is intended to describe the growing urban precariousness experienced by an isolated woman without rights who comes from an uneducated working-class family. Notwithstanding certain shared features of their gendered, post-colonial migratory experiences, undocumented women migrants do not all have the same access to the city. This focus on an extreme case from my fieldwork permits us to understand the degree to which differences in their social resources remain determinant. In this instance, the interviewee with the fewest social resources and an increasingly precarious residential trajectory was to die in the street. For Djénéba, assistance from the city’s social emergency structures meant limited mobility and spatial relegation.