The narratives of Hardship: : The new and the old poor in the aftermath of the 2008 crisis in Europe

Dagdeviren, Hulya, Donoghue, Matthew and Meier, Lars (2017) The narratives of Hardship: : The new and the old poor in the aftermath of the 2008 crisis in Europe. The Sociological Review, 65 (2): 10. pp. 369-385. ISSN 0038-0261
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This paper examines poverty and hardship in Europe after the 2008 crisis, using household interviews in nine European countries. A number of findings deserve highlighting. First, making a distinction between ‘the old poor’ (those who lived in poverty before as well as after the crisis) and ‘the new poor’ (thosewho fell into hardship after the crisis), we show that hardship is experienced quite differently by these groups. Second, the household narratives showed that while material deprivations constitute an important aspect of hardship, the themes of insecurity and dependency also emerged as fundamental dimensions. In contrast to popular political discourse in countries such as the UK, dependency on welfare or family was experienced as a source of distress and manifested as a form of hardship by participants in all countries covered in this study.


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