Absolute Poverty in Europe
Interdisciplinary Perspectives on a Hidden Phenomenon
1st Edition
Published on 3. April 2019
440 pages
978-1-4473-4129-1 (ISBN)
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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.
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.
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Persons
Editor
University of Salzburg
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.
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.
University of Salzburg
Dr Gottfried Schweiger is Senior Scientist at the Centre for Ethics and Poverty Research, University of Salzburg. He works in social and political philosophy.
Dr Gottfried Schweiger is Senior Scientist at the Centre for Ethics and Poverty Research, University of Salzburg. He works in social and political philosophy.
University of Notre Dame
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.
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.
Contributions
University of Salzburg
Dr Gottfried Schweiger is Senior Scientist at the Centre for Ethics and Poverty Research, University of Salzburg. He works in social and political philosophy.
Dr Gottfried Schweiger is Senior Scientist at the Centre for Ethics and Poverty Research, University of Salzburg. He works in social and political philosophy.
Penalising Homelessness in Europe
Economist, PhD in Public policy and master's Degree in Human Rights
Economist, PhD in Public policy and master's Degree in Human Rights
University of Jyväskylä
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.
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.
Universidad Pontificia Comilla
Professor/Researcher, University Institute for Family Studies, Universidad Pontificia Comillas, Madrid
Professor/Researcher, University Institute for Family Studies, Universidad Pontificia Comillas, Madrid
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.
Department of Social Policy
Robert Walker is Professor Emeritus and Emeritus Fellow of Green Templeton College.
Robert Walker is Professor Emeritus and Emeritus Fellow of Green Templeton College.
Higher Institute of Labour Studies, University of Leuven
Ides Nicaise is Research Manager at the Hoger Instituut voor de Arbeid (Catholic University of Leuven) and Chair of the Belgian Anti-poverty Unit.
Ides Nicaise is Research Manager at the Hoger Instituut voor de Arbeid (Catholic University of Leuven) and Chair of the Belgian Anti-poverty Unit.
University of Toyama, Department of Economics
Professor, University of Toyama
Professor, University of Toyama
University of York
School of Applied Social Sciences, University of Durham
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.
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.
Content
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.
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.
