Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Figures and Tables
- Preface
- Orientations
- Part I Poor Health: Social Justice and Mutual Recognition
- Part II Poor Housing: Social Justice and Mutual Understanding
- Chapter Three Unsheltered Children
- Concluding Remarks
- Chapter Four Social Justice and Capabilities
- Concluding Remarks: Mutualizing Understanding
- Part III Poor Food: Social Justice and Mutual Respect
- Part IV Poor Spirits: Social Justice and Articulacy
Chapter Three - Unsheltered Children
from Part II - Poor Housing: Social Justice and Mutual Understanding
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 September 2014
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Figures and Tables
- Preface
- Orientations
- Part I Poor Health: Social Justice and Mutual Recognition
- Part II Poor Housing: Social Justice and Mutual Understanding
- Chapter Three Unsheltered Children
- Concluding Remarks
- Chapter Four Social Justice and Capabilities
- Concluding Remarks: Mutualizing Understanding
- Part III Poor Food: Social Justice and Mutual Respect
- Part IV Poor Spirits: Social Justice and Articulacy
Summary
“Action today in support of providing housing for the most fragile persons is at a turning point.”
The Abbé Pierre Foundation 2011After looking in Part One at some empirical and reflective detail in the particular kinds of vulnerabilities that destitute Paris street children exhibit with respect to chronically endangered health, we now take up in Part Two a second central moment of their situation, their homelessness.
Poor Children II: Corrected Numbers
Before, however, looking at some economic and philosophical reflections on the persistent lack of proper housing that afflicts so many destitute Paris street children, we do well first to remind ourselves of some of the relatively uncertain empirical backgrounds to such reflections.
Unreliable Numbers
In March 2010 France's official Observatoire national de la pauvreté et de l'exclusion sociale (ONPES) corrected its earlier April 2008 estimates with the help of its unusually valuable ten-year longitudinal study entitled Bilan de 10 ans d'observation de la pauvreté et de l'exclusion sociale à l'heure de la crise. ONPES now reported that already in 2007 poverty in France, carefully measured at the European-wide metric of 60% of net national income and according to ONPES's 11 central indicators applied to data from 1998 to 2008, affected 13.4% of the then population. Moreover, ONPES specified the different kinds of poverty at issue.
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- Moments of MutualityRearticulating Social Justice in France and the EU, pp. 51 - 62Publisher: Jagiellonian University PressPrint publication year: 2012