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689 Annals Am. Acad. Pol. & Soc. Sci. 7 (2020)

handle is hein.cow/anamacp0689 and id is 1 raw text is: Do Networks Help People To Manage Poverty? Perspectives from the Field By MIRANDA J. LUBBERS, MARIO LUIS SMALL, and HUGO VALENZUELA GARCIA Keywords: poverty; social exclusion; social networks; social support; relational mechanisms; coping strategies; network poverty In 2018, a staggering 38 million Americans, labout one in every nine, faced income poverty. Seventeen million of them experi- enced deep or extreme poverty, defined as a household income below 50 percent of the household's poverty threshold (Semega et al. 2019). Extreme poverty has almost doubled between 1995 and 2016 (Brady and Parolin 2019). Given the magnitude of the problem both in the United States and worldwide, it is hardly surprising that poverty has had a steady place on the agenda of the social sciences. Nonetheless, not all of its features have received equal attention. A recent literature review of the causes of poverty (Brady 2019) distin- guished between three dominant explanations for poverty: individual behaviors and risk fac- tors (e.g., unemployment, single motherhood, Miranda J. Lubbers is an associate professor in the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology and director of the Research Group GRAFO at the Autonomous University of Barcelona in Spain. She investigates personal networks, migration, poverty, social exclusion, and social cohesion. Her recent work appears in, among others, Social Networks, Human Nature, and the International Migration Review. She is coauthor of the book Conducting Personal Network Research: A Practical Guide (Guilford Press 2019). Mario Luis Small is Grafstein Family Professor of Sociology at Harvard University. His research interests include urban poverty, inequality, culture, networks, and case study methods. He is the author of Villa Victoria: The Transformation of Social Capital in a Boston Barrio (University of Chicago Press 2004), Unanticipated Gains: Origins of Network Inequality in Everyday Life (Oxford University Press 2009), and Someone to Talk to (Oxford University Press 2017). Correspondence: mirandajessica.lubbers@uab.es DOI: 10.1177/0002716220923959 ANNALS, AAPSS, 689, May 2020

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