ABSTRACT
This chapter argues that mobility is central to power relationships in detention by using the Romanian case. It explores that fieldwork in Romania convinced the necessity to further analyses the relationships between confinement and mobility. Reinforcement of the management and control of international migrations coincide with negotiations for the European integration of Romania. Detention in one of these centres for 'public custody' is a temporary measure of movement restriction on the territory of the 'Romanian State'. Internal movements are generally restricted to the detainees' zone, but may also extend into the staff area. Governmental mobility' is the procedure to which foreigners are submitted, but it can also serve as a punitive measure and ultimately results in detainees being deprived of their migration route. Concerning the analysis of forced mobility, detention in Romania shows the diversity of techniques of government through mobility: in their causes, forms, scales, spaces and places.
