Child Poverty

Aspiring to Survive

Morag C. Treanor (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

254 Seiten

2020
Policy Press (Verlag)
978-1-4473-3466-8 (ISBN)

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Placing children’s experiences, needs and concerns at the centre of its examination of contemporary policies and political discourses surrounding poverty in childhood, this book examines a broad range of structural, institutional and ideological factors common across developed nations and forges a radical new pathway for the future.

Child poverty is rising across affluent Western societies; how it is measured is vital to how governments act to prevent, alleviate or eliminate it. While the roots of childhood poverty are fiercely debated and contested, they are all too often misrepresented in policy and media discourses.

Seeking to redress this problem, Treanor places children’s experiences, needs and concerns at the centre of this critical examination of the contemporary policies and political discourses surrounding poverty in childhood. She examines a broad range of structural, institutional and ideological factors common across developed nations, and their impacts, to interrogate how poverty in childhood is conceptualised and operationalised in policy and to forge a radical pathway for an alternative future.

Morag C. Treanor is Professor of Child and Family Inequalities at the Institute for Social Policy, Housing, Equalities Research (I-SPHERE) at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh

Introduction

Context

Family

Lone parenthood

Education

In and out of work

Health

Ethnicity and disability

Adversity and poverty

Conclusions

Erscheinungsdatum	30.12.2019
Zusatzinfo	2 Tables, black and white; 8 Illustrations, black and white
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Sozialpädagogik
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-4473-3466-3 / 1447334663
ISBN-13	978-1-4473-3466-8 / 9781447334668
Zustand	Neuware