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The first chapter addresses the concept of social exclusion, focusing on the main definitions within the international debate and its central elements. This chapter refers to social inclusion as a goal, process and outcome and underlines its different dimensions, differentiating it from poverty. In fact, although we often use them as synonyms, the concepts of social exclusion and poverty do not exactly coincide, but they describe different conditions characterised by a relationship of cause and effect. Poverty is one of the dimensions of social exclusion, which refers to a wider and more complex situation.
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Mela, A., Toldo, A. (2019). Understanding Social Exclusion. In: Socio-Spatial Inequalities in Contemporary Cities. SpringerBriefs in Geography. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-17256-5_1
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