Absolute Poverty in Europe

Interdisciplinary Perspectives on a Hidden Phenomenon
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-1-4473-4130-7
Verlag: Policy Press

Buch, Englisch, 440 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 667 g

Engaging systematically with severe forms of poverty in Europe, this important book stimulates academic, public and policy debate by shedding light on aspects of deprivation and exclusion of people in absolute poverty in affluent societies. It examines issues such as access to health care, housing and nutrition, poverty related shame, and violence.

The book investigates different policy and civic responses to extreme poverty, ranging from food donations to penalisation and “social cleansing” of highly visible poor and how it is related to concerns of ethics, justice and human dignity.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gaisbauer, Helmut P.

Schweiger, Gottfried

Sedmark, Clemens

Sedmak, Clemens

Weitere Mitwirkende

Schweiger, Gottfried

Neuhäuser, Christian

Pribytkova, Elena

Fernandez Evangelista, Guillem

Sofia Salonen, Anna

Silvasti, Tiina

Papanastasiou, Stephanos

McAreavey, Ruth

Pitillas, Carlos

Brannen, Julia

O'Connell, Rebecca

Winston, Nessa

Kennedy, Patricia

Trummer, Ursula

Walker, Robert

Bircan, Tuba

Schockaert, Ingrid

Nicaise, Ides

Movshuk, Oleksandr

Bradshaw, Jonathan

Dominelli, Lena

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziale Ungleichheit, Armut, Rassismus
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Arbeit/Sozialpädagogik Soziale Dienste, Soziale Organisationen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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.

Über Autor(innen)

Schweiger, Gottfried
Dr Gottfried Schweiger is Senior Scientist at the Centre for Ethics and Poverty Research, University of Salzburg. He works in social and political philosophy.

Brannen, Julia
Julia Brannen is Professor of the sociology of the family at UCL Institute of Education and a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences. With an international reputation for research on the lives of parents, children and young people in families, including work-family life, relations between the generations and food in families, she is well known for her methodological expertise, in particular for advancing mixed methods approaches.

Schweiger, Gottfried
Dr Gottfried Schweiger is Senior Scientist at the Centre for Ethics and Poverty Research, University of Salzburg. He works in social and political philosophy.

Fernandez Evangelista, Guillem
Economist, PhD in Public policy and master's Degree in Human Rights

Nicaise, Ides
Ides Nicaise is Research Manager at the Hoger Instituut voor de Arbeid (Catholic University of Leuven) and Chair of the Belgian Anti-poverty Unit.

Movshuk, Oleksandr
Professor, University of Toyama

Walker, Robert
Robert Walker is Professor Emeritus and Emeritus Fellow of Green Templeton College.

Pitillas, Carlos
Professor/Researcher, University Institute for Family Studies, Universidad Pontificia Comillas, Madrid

Gaisbauer, Helmut P.
Dr Helmut P Gaisbauer is Senior Scientist at the Centre for Ethics and Poverty Research, University of Salzburg, with research interests in normative philosophy and political theory. He is also President of the Institute for Advanced Studies in Social Ethics in Salzburg.

Silvasti, Tiina
Tiina Silvasti is Professor of Social and Public Policy at the Department of Social Sciences and Philosophy at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland. Her research interests focus on charitable response to food poverty.

Sedmak, Clemens
Clemens Sedmak is professor of social ethics and holds a joint appointment in the Keough School of Global Affairs and the Center for Social Concerns at the University of Notre Dame. He is also the FM Schmölz OP Professor for Social Ethics and Head of the Centre for Ethics and Poverty Research, University of Salzburg.

Dominelli, Lena
Lena Dominelli holds a chair in Applied Social Sciences in the School of Applied Social Sciences and is Co-Director at the Institute of Hazards, Risk and Resilience Research at Durham University, UK, with particular responsibility for work on vulnerability and resilience.

Helmut P Gaisbauer is Senior Scientist at the Centre for Ethics and Poverty Research, Salzburg University, with research interests in normative philosophy and political theory. He is also President of the Institute for Advanced Studies in Social Ethics in Salzburg.

Gottfried Schweiger is Senior Scientist at the Centre for Ethics and Poverty Research, University of Salzburg. He works in social and political philosophy.

Clemens Sedmak is Professor of social ethics and holds a joint appointment in the Keough School of Global Affairs and the Center for Social Concerns at the University of Notre Dame. He is also the FM Schmölz OP Professor for Social Ethics and Head of the Centre for Ethics and Poverty Research, University of Salzburg.