This article focuses on cross-border medical connections between Myanmar and Manipur, India. Non-state actors have been instrumental in creating the networks to bring bodies and body parts back and forth, first bypassing, then enmeshing, state actors. I focus on the movement of patients and medical samples across the border—from western Myanmar to Imphal city and back again—and the health infrastructure that enables it. Analysing these connections makes several contributions to the study of border governance. First, movement from Myanmar to Manipur is primarily for treatment or diagnosis, and these connections project particular ways of thinking about each place—western Myanmar as poor and remote, Manipur as advanced and networked. Second, both Manipur and western Myanmar can be considered in ‘transition’—as territories being recalibrated by political dynamics emanating elsewhere yet becoming connected through shared needs. Third, patients and samples move through territories controlled by paramilitary forces, underground groups, and different tribal councils. Routes are sometimes blocked or passage treacherous, testing the limits of conventional notions of bilateral border governance. Finally, cross-border medical connections between Manipur and Myanmar draw attention to the risky cross-border medical mobility of the poor. Rather than seeking to minimize cost, patients utilize Manipur's health infrastructure out of necessity, providing insights into the contours of cross-border medical care in times of transition.

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从缅甸到曼尼普尔动员身体和身体部位：“过渡”中通过边境地区的医疗联系

本文重点介绍缅甸与印度曼尼普尔邦之间的跨境医疗联系。非国家行为者在创建网络以将身体和身体部位来回移动方面发挥了重要作用，首先绕过国家行为者，然后是纠缠不清。我专注于患者和医疗样本的跨境流动——从缅甸西部到因帕尔市再返回——以及实现这一目标的卫生基础设施。分析这些联系对边境治理的研究做出了一些贡献。首先，从缅甸到曼尼普尔邦的迁移主要是为了治疗或诊断，这些联系投射出对每个地方的特殊思考方式——缅甸西部贫穷而偏远，曼尼普尔邦发达且联网。第二，曼尼普尔邦和缅甸西部都可以被视为“过渡”——因为领土正在被其他地方产生的政治动态重新校准，但通过共同的需​​求变得相互联系。第三，患者和样本通过准军事部队、地下团体和不同部落委员会控制的领土。路线有时会被封锁或通过险恶，测试双边边界治理的传统概念的局限性。最后，曼尼普尔邦和缅甸之间的跨境医疗联系引起了人们对贫困人口跨境医疗流动风险的关注。患者没有寻求将成本降至最低，而是出于必要而利用曼尼普尔邦的卫生基础设施，从而在过渡时期深入了解跨境医疗保健的轮廓。