Introduction ~ Helmut P. Gaisbauer, Gottfried Schweiger and Clemens Sedmak;
Section I: Conceptual and methodological challenges;
Reconceptualising Poverty in Europe: Exclusion, marginality and absolute poverty reframed through participatory relational space ~ Lena Dominelli;
Measures of extreme poverty applied in the European Union ~ Jonathan Bradshaw and Oleksandr Movshuk;
The uncounted poor in EU-SILC:  A statistical profile of the income and living conditions of homeless people, undocumented immigrants and travelers in Belgium ~ Ides Nicaise, Ingrid Schockaert and Tuba Bircan;
Measuring Absolute Poverty: Shame is all you need ~ Robert Walker;
Section II: Key issues for the absolute poor;
Health care for the absolute poor ~ Ursula Trummer;
Housing deprivation ~ Patricia Kennedy and Nessa Winston;
Food poverty and the families the state has turned its back on: The case of the UK ~ Rebecca O´Connell and Julia Brannen;
Back to the origins: Early interpersonal trauma and the intergenerational transmission of violence within the context of urban poverty ~ Carlos Pitillas;
Unravelling the complexities of poverty in Northern Ireland, a New Immigration Destination ~ Ruth McAreavey;
High accompaniment needs: Absolute poverty and vulnerable migrants ~ Clemens Sedmak;
Section III: Policy responses to absolute poverty in Europe;
Absolute poverty and social protection in the EU: A cross-country comparison ~ Stefanos Papanastasiou;
Faith based organizations as actors in the charity economy: A case study of food assistance in Finland ~ Tiina Silvasti and Anna Sofia Salonen;
Absolute poverty and the EU Social Policy Agenda ~ Helmut P. Gaisbauer;
Penalising homelessness in Europe ~ Guillem Fernàndez Evangelista; 
Protection from poverty in the European Court of Human Rights ~ Elena Pribytkova;
Section IV: Ethical perspectives on absolute pover