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Author Bhalla, A. S

Title Poverty among immigrant children in Europe / A.S. Bhalla and Peter McCormick
Published Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, ©2009

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Description 1 online resource (xxii, 223 pages) : illustrations
Contents Poverty, Deprivation and Destitution -- The Notions of Well-being and Ill-being -- A Justice-as-fairness Approach to Poverty -- A Capability Approach -- Children's Rights and Social Justice -- Adult Immigrants and Their Children in Europe -- Poverty Incidence Among Immigrants and Children -- Access to Education and the Labour Market -- The EU Approach to Child Poverty -- Concluding Remarks -- The Immigration Debate -- Family Reunification -- A Common Immigration Policy for Europe? -- Rights of Immigrants, Duties of States -- The Magnitude of Immigrant Population -- Residence Status of Foreigners -- Poverty Among Immigrant Children -- Access to Education and Employment -- Access to Health Services -- Other Indicators -- A Comparative Study of Immigrant Children From Former Yugoslavia, Portugal and Turkey -- Immigration: Magnitude and Trends -- The Status of Immigrants and Their Children -- Poverty Among Immigrant Children -- Access to Education and Employment -- Access to Health Care -- The Plight of Minor Children -- Roma Children -- The General Housing Situation -- The Housing Problems of Immigrants and Their Children -- Housing Aid -- Housing of Roma Children -- The Immigration Policies -- Income and Non-income Child Poverty -- Social and Political Participation -- Discrimination and Racism -- Well-being of Children
Summary Why does child poverty exist in industrialized countries? In an attempt to answer this question, this book examines monetary and non-monetary poverty among immigrant children in Western Europe, with particular reference to France and Switzerland. Set within the context of the current controversial debate on European immigration policy, this book presents an analysis of empirical data on immigrant child poverty and discusses the suitability of existing approaches such as justice-as-fairness and capability, while providing an alternative approach based on child rights and social justice. The book examines the impact of low incomes of immigrant parents and their precarious legal status in the host country which handicaps them in education, employment and the housing market
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
Print version record
Subject Poverty -- Europe, Western
Immigrant children -- Europe, Western -- Social conditions
Immigrant families -- Europe, Western -- Economic conditions
Immigrant children -- Services for -- Europe, Western
Immigrant families -- Services for -- Europe, Western
Immigrants -- Government policy -- Europe, Western
Immigrants -- Services for -- Europe, Western
Development economics.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Poverty & Homelessness.
Economics.
Immigrants -- Government policy
Poverty
Social policy
Fattigdom -- Västeuropa.
Invandrarbarn -- Västeuropa -- sociala förhållanden.
Invandrarbarn -- Västeuropa -- frivillig hjälpverksamhet för.
Invandrare -- statlig politik -- Västeuropa.
SUBJECT Europe, Western -- Social policy
Subject Western Europe
Form Electronic book
Author McCormick, Peter (Peter J.)
LC no. 2009497020
ISBN 9780230233973
023023397X
1282504363
9781282504363
9786612504365
6612504366