The Hidden Face of Poverty in New Brunswick: Giving Women a Voice to Understand Their Experience of Suffering
This article explores the suffering of New Brunswick women living in poverty through their life experience. Three qualitative research projects provided access to the narrative of these women. The suffering experienced highlights three dimensions: disqualification, stigmatization, and strategies for coping and resisting. The analysis of these dimensions emphasizes the necessity to consider the subjective experience of falling associated with disqualification, feeling ashamed as a result of stigmatization, and being hopeful and combative as strategies of resistance. Hence, these experiences of suffering reveal the necessity to understand poverty beyond an individualistic approach, and the need to combat poverty from a human dignity perspective.