It has been argued that poverty means a lack of economic resources, whereas social exclusion refers to the broader issue of social integration. One way of visualizing the relations that exist between poverty and exclusion is that the first impedes social participation and the exercise of citizenship. Thus, if poverty entails a lack of resources to participate in society, social exclusion refers to the dynamic processes that end up disconnecting individuals from the social, economic, political, cultural systems that determine their social integration (Levitas, 1998).