| Description |
1 online resource (1 volume) : illustrations |
| Contents |
List of figures and tables; Figures; Tables; Notes on contributors; 1. Absolute poverty in Europe: introduction; Part One. Conceptual and methodological challenges; 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; Part Two. Key issues for the absolute poor |
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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; Part Three. Policy responses to absolute poverty in Europe; 12. Absolute poverty and social protection in the EU: a cross-national comparison |
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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; Part Four. Ethical perspectives on absolute poverty in Europe; 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; Index |
| Summary |
This 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, April 2, 2019) |
| Subject |
Poverty -- Europe
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Poverty -- Government policy -- Europe
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Poor -- Services for -- Europe
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Security.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Services & Welfare.
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Poor -- Services for
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Poverty
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Poverty -- Government policy
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Europe
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Gaisbauer, Helmut P., editor
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Schweiger, Gottfried, editor
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Sedmak, Clemens, 1971- editor
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| ISBN |
9781447341291 |
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1447341295 |
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9781447341314 |
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1447341317 |
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9781447341321 |
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1447341325 |
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