Absolute Poverty in Europe: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on a Hidden Phenomenon

ISBN-13: 9781447341307 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 440 str.

Helmut Gaisbauer; Gottfried Schweiger

Spis treści

Introduction ~ Helmut P. Gaisbauer, Gottfried Schweiger and Clemens Sedmak; Section I: Conceptual and methodological challenges; Reconceptualising Poverty in Europe: Exclusion, marginality and absolute poverty reframed through participatory relational space ~ Lena Dominelli; Measures of extreme poverty applied in the European Union ~ Jonathan Bradshaw and Oleksandr Movshuk; The uncounted poor in EU-SILC: A statistical profile of the income and living conditions of homeless people, undocumented immigrants and travelers in Belgium ~ Ides Nicaise, Ingrid Schockaert and Tuba Bircan; Measuring Absolute Poverty: Shame is all you need ~ Robert Walker; Section II: Key issues for the absolute poor; Health care for the absolute poor ~ Ursula Trummer; Housing deprivation ~ Patricia Kennedy and Nessa Winston; Food poverty and the families the state has turned its back on: The case of the UK ~ Rebecca O´Connell and Julia Brannen; Back to the origins: Early interpersonal trauma and the intergenerational transmission of violence within the context of urban poverty ~ Carlos Pitillas; Unravelling the complexities of poverty in Northern Ireland, a New Immigration Destination ~ Ruth McAreavey; High accompaniment needs: Absolute poverty and vulnerable migrants ~ Clemens Sedmak; Section III: Policy responses to absolute poverty in Europe; Absolute poverty and social protection in the EU: A cross-country comparison ~ Stefanos Papanastasiou; Faith based organizations as actors in the charity economy: A case study of food assistance in Finland ~ Tiina Silvasti and Anna Sofia Salonen; Absolute poverty and the EU Social Policy Agenda ~ Helmut P. Gaisbauer; Penalising homelessness in Europe ~ Guillem Fernàndez Evangelista; Protection from poverty in the European Court of Human Rights ~ Elena Pribytkova; Section IV: Ethical perspectives on absolute poverty in Europe; Dignity, self-respect and real poverty in Europe ~ Christian Neuhäuser; Justice and Absolute Poverty ~ Gottfried Schweiger; Conclusion: Responding to the dark reality of absolute poverty in European welfare states ~ Helmut P. Gaisbauer, Gottfried Schweiger and Clemens Sedmak.