Beschreibung

"This book is about those few households which are in poverty, or close to it, but manage to get by relatively and sometimes unexpectedly well. Not necessarily in the sense of standard understandings of a decent life, but in terms of getting-by-better than most of their peers, despite the range of adversities and crises that they face. This book explores what makes them, or how they make themselves, resilient. It seeks to know how they, and we, can learn from resilient processes and practices. As a result, this book develops new concepts for poverty research in order to broaden the analytical lens (poverty is not only an income problem) and overcome the important, but often dominant deficit approach. This is achieved by exploring various dimensions of how families and households in, or close to poverty actually get by, as well as how and why some of them do so better than others under similar circumstances. There are three main questions explored in this book: is there social resilience among households at the brink of poverty? How does it work (or not), and what are its respective resources, conditions, restraints, limits and risks? In part, this book reflects the social effects in Europe of the global economic crisis of 2007, or the 2008 Great Recession, and beyond." (Text excerpt, IAB-Doku) ((en))