The Poverty Truth Movement: Fostering Communities of Care and Solidarity, a Participative Action Research Project

贫困真相运动：培育关怀和团结的社区，一个参与性行动研究项目

• 批准号: 2580288
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Lancaster University
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2021 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2580288
• 关键词: Poverty; Truth; Movement; Fostering; Communities

In 2018, Philip Alston, the UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, visitedthe UK on a fact-finding operation to establish the impact of a decade of austerity cuts to theBritish welfare state. Drawing on interview data, testimonies and reports from charitable andthird sector organisations, and both qualitative and quantitative social scientific data, Alstonreported that one fifth of the UK population (14 million people) were living in poverty, with 1.5million British citizens currently experiencing destitution. According to the Institute and Faculty ofActuaries (2019), life expectancy has fallen by six months for the first time since official longevityreports began. The Covid-19 pandemic has further exacerbated poverty in the UK, with severeeconomic impacts, and higher death rates concentrated in those regions and communities alreadymost impacted by austerity cuts. For example, data from the British Medical Journal reveals thatpeople from poor neighbourhoods are twice as likely to die from the virus (BMJ, 2020).

2018年，联合国赤贫与人权问题特别报告员菲利普·奥尔斯顿访问英国进行实况调查，以确定十年来的紧缩削减对英国福利国家的影响。奥尔斯顿利用采访数据、慈善机构和第三部门组织的证词和报告，以及定性和定量的社会科学数据，报告称，英国五分之一的人口（1400 万人）生活在贫困之中，目前有 150 万英国公民陷入贫困。根据精算师协会（2019）的数据，自官方长寿报告开始以来，预期寿命首次下降了六个月。 Covid-19大流行进一步加剧了英国的贫困，造成了严重的经济影响，更高的死亡率集中在那些已经受到紧缩削减影响最严重的地区和社区。例如，《英国医学杂志》的数据显示，贫困社区的人死于该病毒的可能性是贫困社区的两倍（BMJ，2020）。