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Families and Food in Hard Times [electronic resource] : European comparative research.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: London : UCL Press, 2021.Description: 1 online resource (271 p.)ISBN:
  • 9781787356580
  • 1787356582
  • 9781787356559
  • 1787356558
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Families and Food in Hard TimesDDC classification:
  • 362.5094 23
LOC classification:
  • HV700.G7
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Section 1 Setting the scene -- 1 The national contexts: the UK, Portugal and Norway -- The UK, Portugal and Norway: their history, characteristics and welfare regimes -- Poverty and inequality among families after the 2008 financial crisis -- Rising household food insecurity in Europe after the 2008 financial crisis -- Food poverty and public discourse -- Food, food policy and responsibility for household food insecurity
Food aid in austerity Europe -- Notes -- 2 Research questions and concepts -- The study's research questions -- Food poverty: a relative and political approach -- The material dimension of food poverty -- The social dimension: exclusion from customary food practices -- The psychosocial dimension: worry and shame -- Understanding the household as a resource unit -- Food, poverty and change -- Children and poverty -- Notes -- 3 The study -- The macro level: documentary and secondary analysis of international data -- The meso level: the areas where the families live
The micro level: the parents and children -- Selecting the families -- The qualitative methods -- The families -- Analysing the data -- Ethical considerations -- Notes -- 4 Which types of family are at risk of food insecurity? -- The international data: European Statistics on Income and Living Conditions -- Family type in the UK, Portugal and Norway -- Families at risk of income poverty and food insecurity -- Types of family at risk of food insecurity -- The relationship between family type, income poverty and food insecurity -- Discussion
Households experiencing food insecurity in the qualitative research -- Children and parents going without enough to eat -- The quality of children's diets -- Discussion -- Notes -- Section 2 Households as resource units -- 5 Three families headed by an unemployed lone mother -- Living hand to mouth in a coastal town in the UK: Angela and Bryony -- Frequent hunger in an extended family in Lisbon: Lala and Goncalo -- Using the credit card to buy food in a migrant family in Oslo: Faduma and Sadia -- Discussion -- Notes -- 6 Three dual-earner households
Low and fluctuating income in a coastal UK town: Sally and Owen -- Low wages and not enough hours in Lisbon: Sonia and Bianca -- Disability benefits and one insecure income in the Norwegian countryside: Marit, her two sons, Asgier and Filip, and her daughter, Rebeka -- Discussion -- Notes -- 7 Three undocumented migrant families -- Destitution and child hunger in a hostile UK: Morowa and her teenage sons, Emmanuel and Gideon -- Surviving in the informal economy in Portugal: Nuria and Tola -- Feeding a large family on state benefits in Norway: Aamina and Jamal -- Discussion -- Notes
Summary: Based on cross-national research carried out with low-income families with children aged 11-15, Families and Food in Hard Times examines food poverty in the UK, Portugal and Norway following the 2008 financial crisis.
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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Section 1 Setting the scene -- 1 The national contexts: the UK, Portugal and Norway -- The UK, Portugal and Norway: their history, characteristics and welfare regimes -- Poverty and inequality among families after the 2008 financial crisis -- Rising household food insecurity in Europe after the 2008 financial crisis -- Food poverty and public discourse -- Food, food policy and responsibility for household food insecurity

Food aid in austerity Europe -- Notes -- 2 Research questions and concepts -- The study's research questions -- Food poverty: a relative and political approach -- The material dimension of food poverty -- The social dimension: exclusion from customary food practices -- The psychosocial dimension: worry and shame -- Understanding the household as a resource unit -- Food, poverty and change -- Children and poverty -- Notes -- 3 The study -- The macro level: documentary and secondary analysis of international data -- The meso level: the areas where the families live

The micro level: the parents and children -- Selecting the families -- The qualitative methods -- The families -- Analysing the data -- Ethical considerations -- Notes -- 4 Which types of family are at risk of food insecurity? -- The international data: European Statistics on Income and Living Conditions -- Family type in the UK, Portugal and Norway -- Families at risk of income poverty and food insecurity -- Types of family at risk of food insecurity -- The relationship between family type, income poverty and food insecurity -- Discussion

Households experiencing food insecurity in the qualitative research -- Children and parents going without enough to eat -- The quality of children's diets -- Discussion -- Notes -- Section 2 Households as resource units -- 5 Three families headed by an unemployed lone mother -- Living hand to mouth in a coastal town in the UK: Angela and Bryony -- Frequent hunger in an extended family in Lisbon: Lala and Goncalo -- Using the credit card to buy food in a migrant family in Oslo: Faduma and Sadia -- Discussion -- Notes -- 6 Three dual-earner households

Low and fluctuating income in a coastal UK town: Sally and Owen -- Low wages and not enough hours in Lisbon: Sonia and Bianca -- Disability benefits and one insecure income in the Norwegian countryside: Marit, her two sons, Asgier and Filip, and her daughter, Rebeka -- Discussion -- Notes -- 7 Three undocumented migrant families -- Destitution and child hunger in a hostile UK: Morowa and her teenage sons, Emmanuel and Gideon -- Surviving in the informal economy in Portugal: Nuria and Tola -- Feeding a large family on state benefits in Norway: Aamina and Jamal -- Discussion -- Notes

Section 3 The social dimensions of food poverty.

Based on cross-national research carried out with low-income families with children aged 11-15, Families and Food in Hard Times examines food poverty in the UK, Portugal and Norway following the 2008 financial crisis.

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