paragraph 1 - marginalisation

Question 1

Poverty - An Urban issue?
PEEL

Answer 1

P - Rural areas are at the face of poverty, and it is often hidden from View
E -
E -
L - ALWAYS LINK BACK TO QUESTION

Question 2

In work Poverty + Citation

Answer 2

• Shucksmith 2018 found that in-work poverty is pretty common and people who have jobs face poverty - this can be due to the agricultural labour within rural areas and the nature of them being low-paid jobs.
• Also noted that there is a lack of training and facilities for upskilling to try and improve people’s income levels
• Also a high cost of living in rural areas with people having to travel further to work for example

Question 3

Rural poverty - Hidden from View + Citations

Answer 3

-Poverty will be screened out culturally (Cloke et al 1995)
- People find it hard to reconcile with people in the beautiful idealised countryside and are faced with issues like poverty.
- Because of the spatial manifestation of rural areas - the poverty being scattered across extensive areas makes it less visible compared to cities but doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist (Milbourne, 2014)

Question 4

Rural dwellers + Citation

Answer 4

• In Milbourne’s 2010 study rural dwellers denied the existence of poverty.
• The positive things outweigh/ mask the material economic challenge

Question 5

Rural poverty - Milbourne 2014

Answer 5

• Poverty is screened by the rural idyll
• Idyll attracts new and wealthy incomers
  -Migration reduces the physical and statistical presence of poverty
• Relative poverty is increased and social inequalities accentuated