Below the Breadline: Families and Food in Austerity Britain
Below the Breadline: Families and Food in Austerity Britain
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10.1108/978-1-83909-071-420191012
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2020-01-01
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Brannen, Julia
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O'Connell, Rebecca;Knight, Abigail;Brannen, Julia
全球经济衰退、食品价格上涨和一些欧洲国家的所谓“紧缩”政策使家庭负担不起食品。在这种背景下，尽管各国之间存在差异，但整个欧洲的粮食贫困和不安全状况有所上升（Davis & Baumberg盖革，2017; Loopstra，Reeves，McKee，& Stuckler，2016; Pfeiffer，Ritter，& Oestreicher，2015）。本章考察了英国的情况，自2006年以来，食品银行已经激增（Garthwaite，2016; Loopstra等人，2015年），分发给家庭的食品包裹数量急剧增加（库珀、珀塞尔和杰克逊，2014年; Lambie-Mumford &绿色，2015年）。虽然有证据表明，全球金融危机和不断变化的社会政策（包括福利改革）的影响对英国家庭造成了打击（有孩子的家庭）比没有孩子的家庭更难（De Agostini，Hills，& Sutherland，2014;斯图尔特，2015年），缺乏系统收集有关英国家庭粮食不安全或贫困的直接数据，因此，缺乏证据说明这些经济现象和政策变化如何影响家庭养活自己的能力。然而，关于儿童，家庭和贫困的社会学研究表明，低收入家庭的食物受到损害（Daly & Kelly，2015），父母为了保护孩子而做出牺牲（例如Main & Bradshaw，2014），这表明需要一种理解家庭和食物贫困的方法，检查家庭内部以及家庭之间的差异。
The global economic recession, rising food prices and so-called ‘austerity’policies in some European countries have made food less affordable for households. In this context, food poverty and insecurity have risen across Europe, albeit there are differences between countries (Davis & Baumberg Geiger, 2017; Loopstra, Reeves, McKee, & Stuckler, 2016; Pfeiffer, Ritter, & Oestreicher, 2015). This chapter examines the case of the UK where, since 2006, food banks have proliferated (Garthwaite, 2016; Loopstra et al., 2015) and the number of food parcels handed out to families has risen dramatically (Cooper, Purcell, & Jackson, 2014; Lambie-Mumford & Green, 2015).Whilst there is evidence that the impacts of the global financial crisis and changing social policy, including welfare reform, have hit UK families (households with children) harder than those without (De Agostini, Hills, & Sutherland, 2014; Stewart, 2015), there is a lack of systematic collection of direct data about household food insecurity or poverty in the UK and, therefore, a lack of evidence about how these economic phenomena and policy changes impact families' ability to feed themselves. However, sociological research about children, families and poverty suggests that food is compromised in low-income households (Daly & Kelly, 2015) and that parents make sacrifices to protect their children (eg Main & Bradshaw, 2014), suggesting that an approach to understanding families and food poverty is needed that examines differences within as well as between households.