Absolute Poverty in Europe

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 Fernandez 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 Neuhaeuser;


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.