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Dieser Beitrag widmet sich der politiktheoretischen Einordnung einer Form des Protests, die gegenwärtig in Deutschland zu beobachten ist: mehrsprachig organisierte Demonstrationen und mehrsprachiges zivilgesellschaftliches Engagement in einer einsprachig organisierten Demokratie. Der mehrsprachige Protest richtet sich gegen restriktive Regelungen in der gegenwärtigen deutschen Migrations- und Asylpolitik. Ausgangspunkt für die Analyse ist James Tullys Begriff der Praktiken der Freiheit. Aus dieser Perspektive betrachtet zeugen die mehrsprachigen Aktionen und mit ihnen die neue Sichtbarkeit der Sprachen von einem Kampf gegen die herrschenden Formen von Zugehörigkeit zur Zivilgesellschaft und der einsprachigen Rahmung des öffentlichen Raums.

AbstractContemporary migration has entailed the emergence of new forms of multilingualism in many European cities. The article uses the concept of complex diversity to analyse this dynamic. The concept points at settings where historical forms of multilingualism and more recent patterns of linguistic heterogeneity interact in ways that lead to particularly rich cultural configurations. The authors assess how local authorities deal with multilingualism in three cities that represent 'most complex' cases of diversity politics: Barcelona, Luxembourg and Riga. The focus is on policies related to public communication and on the approaches adopted to promote social and political inclusion in ever more multilingual urban environments. In normative terms, the article concludes that political responses to complex diversity should aim both at overcoming linguistic status inequalities based on historical structures of domination and at creating common spaces of communication for diverse citizens.

Contemporary migration has entailed the emergence of new forms of multilingualism in many European cities. The article uses the concept of complex diversity to analyse this dynamic. The concept points at settings where historical forms of multilingualism and more recent patterns of linguistic heterogeneity interact in ways that lead to particularly rich cultural configurations. The authors assess how local authorities deal with multilingualism in three cities that represent 'most complex' cases of diversity politics: Barcelona, Luxembourg and Riga. The focus is on policies related to public communication and on the approaches adopted to promote social and political inclusion in ever more multilingual urban environments. In normative terms, the article concludes that political responses to complex diversity should aim both at overcoming linguistic status inequalities based on historical structures of domination and at creating common spaces of communication for diverse citizens.

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- Introduction: Mapping Latina/o Sexualities Research and Scholarship -- 1. A History of Latina/o Sexualities -- 2. Making Sex Matter: Histories of Latina/o Sexualities, 1898 to 1965 -- 3. Latina/o Childhood Sexuality -- 4. Latina/o Parent-Adolescent Communication about Sexuality: An Interdisciplinary Literature Review -- 5. Sexual Health of Latina/o Populations in the United States -- 6. Latina/o Sex Policy -- 7. Heterosexuality Exposed: Some Feminist Sociological Reflections on Heterosexual Sex and Romance in U.S. Latina/o Communities -- 8. Representations of Latina/o Sexuality in Popular Culture -- 9. Cultural Production of Knowledge on Latina/o Sexualities -- 10. Where There's Querer: Knowledge Production and the Praxis of HIV Prevention -- 11. Religion/Spirituality, U.S. Latina/o Communities, and Sexuality Scholarship: A Thread of Current Works -- 12. Latina/o Sexualities in Motion: Latina/o Sexualities Research Agenda Project -- 13. Latinas, Sex Work, and Trafficking in the United States -- 14. Latina Lesbianas, BiMujeres, and Trans Identities: Charting Courses in the Social Sciences -- 15. Latina/o Transpopulations -- 16. Boundaries and Bisexuality: Reframing the Discourse on Latina/o Bisexualities -- 17. Revisiting Activos and Pasivos: Toward New Cartographies of Latino/Latin American Male Same-Sex Desire -- 18. Retiring Behavioral Risk, Disease, and Deficit Models: Sexual Health Frameworks for Latino Gay Men and Other Men Who Enjoy Sex with Men -- Epilogue: Rethinking the Maps Where "Latina/o" and "Sexuality" Meet -- NOTES -- CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX

Latina/os are currently the largest minority population in the United States. They are also one of the fastest growing. Yet, we have very limited research and understanding of their sexualities. Instead, stereotypical images flourish even though scholars have challenged the validity and narrowness of these images and the lack of attention to the larger social context. Gathering the latest empirical work in the social and behavioral sciences, this reader offers us a critical lens through which to understand these images and the social context framing Latina/os and their sexualities. Situa