In this introduction, we propose the notion of ‘embodied belonging’ as a fruitful analytical heuristic for scholars in medical and psychological anthropology. We envision this notion to help us gain a more nuanced understanding of the entanglements of the political, social, and affective dimensions of belonging and their effects on health, illness, and healing. A focus on embodied belonging, we argue, reveals how displacement, exclusion, and marginalization cause existential and health-related ruptures in people’s lives and bodies, and how affected people, in the struggle for re/emplacement and re/integration, may regain health and sustain their well-being. Covering a variety of regional contexts (Germany/Vietnam, Norway, the UK, Japan), the contributions to this special issue examine how embodied non/belonging is experienced, re/imagined, negotiated, practiced, disrupted, contested, and achieved (or not) by their protagonists, who are excluded and marginalized in diverse ways. Each article highlights the intricate trajectories of how dynamics of non/belonging inscribe themselves in human bodies. They also reveal how belonging can be utilized and drawn on as a forceful means and resource of social resilience, if not (self-)therapy and healing.

在本介绍中，我们提出了“具身归属感”的概念，作为医学和心理人类学学者的一种富有成效的分析启发式方法。我们设想这个概念来帮助我们更细致地理解归属的政治、社会和情感维度的纠缠及其对健康、疾病和康复的影响。我们认为，对具身归属的关注揭示了流离失所、排斥和边缘化如何导致人们的生活和身体出现与生存和健康相关的破裂，以及受影响的人们如何在重新/安置和重新/融合的斗争中恢复健康并维持他们的福祉。涵盖各种区域背景（德国/越南、挪威、英国、日本），对本特刊的贡献研究了具体的非/归属如何被体验、重新/想象、他们的主角以各种方式被排斥和边缘化，谈判、实践、破坏、竞争和实现（或不实现）。每篇文章都强调了非/归属的动态如何在人体中铭刻自己的复杂轨迹。它们还揭示了如何利用和利用归属感作为一种强有力的手段和社会复原力的资源，如果不是（自我）治疗和治愈的话。