Poverty in Italy

Chiara Saraceno, former Professor at the University of Turin and at the Institute for Social Research in Berlin, is presently Honorary Fellow at the Collegio Carlo Alberto, Turin. David Benassi is Associate Professor at the University of Milano-Bicocca and Director of the Planning and Management of Social Policies and Services masters programme. Enrica Morlicchio is Full Professor of Economic Sociology at the Federico II University of Naples. She is editor of the Journal Sociologia del Lavoro.

• A Regime ApproachPoverty Regimes and the Great RecessionThe Historical Roots of the Italian Poverty RegimeLong-term Trends Since the Early 1990sWorking Poor, Children and Migrants: Italy’s ‘New Poor’Urban Poverty in ItalyA Late- and Uncertain Comer in Developing Anti-poverty PoliciesContinuities and Changes in the Italian Poverty Regime

"It is consequently highly recommended reading for all scholars concerned with how economic and social mechanisms contribute to poverty formation in Italy and elsewhere." Journal of Social Policy