Between 2012 and 2019, Manus Island, Papua New Guinea, hosted Australia's offshore detention centre for asylum seekers and refugees, known as the Regional Processing Centre (RPC). This paper analyses some of the social impacts of the RPC on Lorengau town, the urban centre of Manus, through the analytical lens of the Manus idiom, as basket (Tok Pisin). Materially this refers to the everyday Manus basket whilst metaphorically, it refers to an individual's or community's social, cultural, political and economic base. First, I examine asylum seekers and refugees as a social category that emerged during this period when they were referred to as papu by locals. Papu is an honorific kinship term for grandfather or elder man; for men who are symbols for family identity, social belonging, and rights to land. Second, I examine the changing materiality of Lorengau's markets as indicative of wider societal transformations and dissonance brought about by the RPC. My ethnographic data are based on long term involvement in Manus, including three recent visits to Lorengau in 2017, 2018, and 2019 where I studied the social impacts and the changing social practices of Manus people in response to the RPC.

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作为篮子和帕普（Papu）：使Manus成为社交面料

在2012年至2019年之间，巴布亚新几内亚的马努斯岛（Manus Island）接待了澳大利亚的寻求庇护者和难民近海拘留中心，称为区域加工中心（RPC）。本文分析了在洛伦高镇，马努的城市中心，通过马努斯成语的分析视角的RPC的社会影响，如篮（皮钦语）。实质上，这是指日常的“马努斯篮子”，而比喻是指个人或社区的社会，文化，政治和经济基础。首先，我将寻求庇护者和难民视为这一时期出现的一种社会类别，当地人将其称为巴布。帕普是祖父或老人的荣誉称谓；适用于象征家庭身份，社会归属感和土地权的男人。其次，我考察了洛伦高市场不断变化的重要性，这表明RPC带来了更广泛的社会变革和不和谐。我的人种学数据基于对Manus的长期参与，包括最近在2017年，2018年和2019年对洛伦高的三次访问，其中我研究了Manus人对RPC的社会影响和不断变化的社会习俗。