Contents

pp iii-iv

List of figures and tables

pp v-vii

Notes on contributors

pp viii-x

1 - Absolute poverty in Europe: introduction

pp 1-14

Part One - Conceptual and methodological challenges

pp 15-16

2 - Reconceptualising poverty in Europe: exclusion, marginality and absolute poverty reframed through participatory relational space

pp 17-38

3 - Measures of extreme poverty applied in the European Union

pp 39-72

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

pp 73-96

5 - Measuring absolute poverty: shame is all you need

pp 97-118

Part Two - Key issues for the absolute poor

pp 119-120

6 - Health care for the absolute poor

pp 121-136

7 - Housing deprivation

pp 137-158

8 - Food poverty and the families the state has turned its back on: the case of the UK

pp 159-182

9 - Back to the origins: early interpersonal trauma and the intergenerational transmission of violence within the context of urban poverty

pp 183-210

10 - Unravelling the complexities of poverty in Northern Ireland, a new immigration destination

pp 211-228

11 - High accompaniment needs: absolute poverty and vulnerable migrants

pp 229-246

Part Three - Policy responses to absolute poverty in Europe

pp 247-248

12 - Absolute poverty and social protection in the EU: a cross-national comparison

pp 249-266

13 - Faith-based organisations as actors in the charity economy: a case study of food assistance in Finland

pp 267-288

14 - Absolute poverty and the EU Social Policy Agenda

pp 289-312

15 - Penalising homelessness in Europe

pp 313-334

16 - Protection from poverty in the European Court of Human Rights

pp 335-360

Part Four - Ethical perspectives on absolute poverty in Europe

pp 361-362

17 - Dignity, self-respect and real poverty in Europe

pp 363-382

18 - Justice and absolute poverty

pp 383-396

Conclusion responding to the dark reality of absolute poverty in European welfare states

pp 397-410

Index

pp 411-430