Feel free to add your own photos. My first photo are of these, especially what you call the really big ones.
I have been looking up some names for these bags that are made in a single factory in China. In Ghana and West Africa they are known as Ghana Must Go bags. In Trinidad - Guyanese Samsonite IN Germany - Tuekenkoffer (Turkish suitcase) In other places - Bangladeshi bags, Chinatown totes, refugee or immigrant bags. In Australia, refugee bags seem to be the most common but in Tasmania they were known as Chickenfeed bags (Chickenfeed was the name off a Tasmanian only bargain chain stores but they have all closed down now)
Nope. There is no widlely used term in America for what seem to be reusable bags used for luggage. Which is surprising, actually. Most of those nicknames are racist-to-antiimmigrant, which is pretty much America's thing right now. Probably because most Americans don't actually know enough recent immigrants to form an opinion on their actual appearance.
I was rather surprised when another Australian told me that Chickenfeed bags were also known as refugee bags. However I am amazed how often I have seen them while watching movies from all over the world. I have seen them in Mongolian movies, movies from various African countries, Kazakhstani movies etc
I've honestly never heard that phrase before. But then, it might just not habe penetrated my bubble. Teehee, penetrated.
I can't say I've ever seen those type of bags, so, I'll just go with bags, or large bags with handles. They do look particularly flimsy and shite though. Well I know I have never seen these before and although they look like some random cooking implement, that's about it.
Opbevaringsposer = storage bags or, perhaps originally, dyneopbevaringsposer = duvet storage bags. (And sometimes they're called dyne-/pudeopbevaringsposer = duvet / pillow storage bags). I have heard the term 'studenterkuffert' ~ students suitcase, though..
I looked these names up on numerous sites and it seems that, as racist as the terms are, it is what many people call them.
It seems that these bags (as Ghana Must Go bags) feature significantly in this movie. It seems the name stems from when 2 million Ghanians were expelled from Nigeria back in 1983. There must have appeared in stores here sometimes in the 1990s after the Chickenfeed stores opened. The stores closed down about 4 years ago so I asked a couple of other Australians what they called the bags.