- Title Pages
- List of figures and tables
- Notes on contributors
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1 Absolute poverty in Europe: introduction -
2 Reconceptualising poverty in Europe: exclusion, marginality and absolute poverty reframed through participatory relational space -
3 Measures of extreme poverty applied in the European Union -
4 The uncounted poor in EU-SILC: a statistical profile of the income and living conditions of homeless people, undocumented immigrants and travellers in Belgium -
5 Measuring absolute poverty: shame is all you need -
6 Health care for the absolute poor -
7 Housing deprivation -
8 Food poverty and the families the state has turned its back on: the case of the UK -
9 Back to the origins: early interpersonal trauma and the intergenerational transmission of violence within the context of urban poverty -
10 Unravelling the complexities of poverty in Northern Ireland, a new immigration destination -
11 High accompaniment needs: absolute poverty and vulnerable migrants -
12 Absolute poverty and social protection in the EU: a cross-national comparison -
13 Faith-based organisations as actors in the charity economy: a case study of food assistance in Finland -
14 Absolute poverty and the EU Social Policy Agenda -
15 Penalising homelessness in Europe -
16 Protection from poverty in the European Court of Human Rights -
17 Dignity, self-respect and real poverty in Europe -
18 Justice and absolute poverty - Conclusion: responding to the dark reality of absolute poverty in European welfare states
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Absolute poverty in Europe: introduction
Absolute poverty in Europe: introduction
- Chapter:
- (p.1) 1 Absolute poverty in Europe: introduction
- Source:
- Absolute Poverty in Europe
- Author(s):
Helmut P. Gaisbauer
Gottfried Schweiger
Clemens Sedmak
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
This introduction examines three challenges – methods, concepts, politics – that can help to grasp what could be meant by absolute poverty in Europe and why it is something that deserves attention from politics as well as from research. A focus on absolute poverty in Europe, instead of on relative poverty and also shifting the conceptual language in this regard, is important because it challenges what can be called the “relative poverty paradigm” which has emerged as the dominant one in Europe over the past decades.
Keywords: absolute poverty, relative poverty paradigm, Europe, methods, concepts, politics
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- Title Pages
- List of figures and tables
- Notes on contributors
-
1 Absolute poverty in Europe: introduction -
2 Reconceptualising poverty in Europe: exclusion, marginality and absolute poverty reframed through participatory relational space -
3 Measures of extreme poverty applied in the European Union -
4 The uncounted poor in EU-SILC: a statistical profile of the income and living conditions of homeless people, undocumented immigrants and travellers in Belgium -
5 Measuring absolute poverty: shame is all you need -
6 Health care for the absolute poor -
7 Housing deprivation -
8 Food poverty and the families the state has turned its back on: the case of the UK -
9 Back to the origins: early interpersonal trauma and the intergenerational transmission of violence within the context of urban poverty -
10 Unravelling the complexities of poverty in Northern Ireland, a new immigration destination -
11 High accompaniment needs: absolute poverty and vulnerable migrants -
12 Absolute poverty and social protection in the EU: a cross-national comparison -
13 Faith-based organisations as actors in the charity economy: a case study of food assistance in Finland -
14 Absolute poverty and the EU Social Policy Agenda -
15 Penalising homelessness in Europe -
16 Protection from poverty in the European Court of Human Rights -
17 Dignity, self-respect and real poverty in Europe -
18 Justice and absolute poverty - Conclusion: responding to the dark reality of absolute poverty in European welfare states
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