Interview by Georg Meggers
Kai Marquardsen, 49, is Professor of Poverty and Social Inequality at Kiel University of Applied Sciences. Local street paper Hempels spoke to him about his research.
Hempels: Where does your research usually take place?
Kai Marquardsen: Together with a research group consisting of staff from the University and the Diakonie Schleswig-Holstein, I have visited people affected by poverty to find out from them how they cope with their everyday lives – and what possible ways out of poverty are.
For this purpose, we interviewed a total of 20 people from all districts of Schleswig-Holstein: women and men, old and young people, people with and without a migration background.
This article first appeared in Hempels, a magazine sold on the streets of Kiel, Germany, by people who have limited other ways of earning an income.