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In recent years, Berlin has been widely acclaimed for the creative enactment of alternative urban imaginaries. This article explores how such spaces of urban alterity can be theorized from a political economy perspective. The beginning section explores the extent to which the 'be berlin' campaign succeeds in representing the economic diversity embodied by these alternative sites. The middle section draws on the work of Gibson-Graham and Foucault to develop a heterotopic reading of economic diversity, focusing on three distinct aspects: the ubiquity and multiplicity of 'other spaces,' the (il)legibility of the spatial order, and the politics of difference articulated through heterotopias. The final section applies this heterotopic perspective by deploying the urban garden project Prinzessinnengarten as an example. Adapted from the source document.

In the ongoing debate on immigrant integration policies, the Sinus study on migrant milieus has attracted much attention for its clear stance as a proponent of a multicultural society. Brushing aside arguments about an ethnic-religious divide in the German social fabric, the study argues that social milieus constitute much stronger markers of difference than ethnicity. This paper provides a critical appraisal of the postethnic vision articulated by Sinus. However, it also raises some methodological issues concerning the collection and analysis of data on immigrant populations. The concluding section discusses the limits of a politics of difference based on milieus. It questions the potential of the Sinus study to move the German immigration debate forward towards a more democratic vision of citizenship, given its de-emphasis of social inequalities rooted in relations of gender, "race" and class.

Die Theorie der ethnischen Ökonomie beschränkte sich bisher auf die Strukturen des migrantischen Gewerbes, wodurch die von Migrantinnen geleistete unentgeltliche affektive und reproduktive Arbeit unberücksichtigt blieb. Die Autorin thematisiert in ihrem Beitrag die migrantische Haushaltsarbeit als Bestandteil der ethnischen Ökonomie, indem sie eine Verknüpfung von feministischer Wirtschaftstheorie mit der Arbeit im Bereich der "Diaspora-Studien" vornimmt. Sie gibt einleitend einen Überblick über die Theorien der ethnischen Ökonomie und die Bedeutung von Gender in diesen Forschungsansätzen. Sie analysiert anschließend die Rolle von affektiver und reproduktiver Haushaltsarbeit in der Migranten-Community anhand von Interviewdaten aus ihrer Feldstudie zu türkischen Migrantinnen und ethnisierten Geschlechterverhältnissen. (ICI)