The Perception of African Immigrant Women Living in Spain Regarding the Persistence of FGM
Approximately 200 million women and girls have undergone female genital mutilation (FGM) worldwide. Migration has spread the practice of FGM around the world, thus making it a global public health issue. The objective of this descriptive qualitative study was to explore the perceptions of Sub-Sahara...
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| author | Berthe-Kone, Ousmane Ventura Miranda, María Isabel López-Saro, Sara María García González, Jessica Granero Molina, José Jiménez Lasserrotte, María Del Mar Fernández Sola, Cayetano |
| author_facet | Berthe-Kone, Ousmane Ventura Miranda, María Isabel López-Saro, Sara María García González, Jessica Granero Molina, José Jiménez Lasserrotte, María Del Mar Fernández Sola, Cayetano |
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| description | Approximately 200 million women and girls have undergone female genital mutilation (FGM) worldwide. Migration has spread the practice of FGM around the world, thus making it a global public health issue. The objective of this descriptive qualitative study was to explore the perceptions of Sub-Saharan immigrant women in Spain in relation to the causes of the persistence of FGM. In-depth interviews were carried out with 13 female FGM survivors of African origin, followed by inductive data analysis using ATLAS.ti software. Two main themes emerged from the analysis: (1) A family ritual symbolic of purification and (2) a system of false beliefs and deception in favour of FGM. The FGM survivors living in Europe are aware that FGM is a practice that violates human rights yet persists due to a system of false beliefs rooted in family traditions and deception that hides the reality of FGM from young girls or forces them to undergo the practice. The ritualistic nature of FGM and the threat of social exclusion faced by women who have not had it performed on them contributes to its persistence nowadays. |
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| spelling | oai:repositorio.ual.es:10835-131142023-04-12T19:18:48Z The Perception of African Immigrant Women Living in Spain Regarding the Persistence of FGM Berthe-Kone, Ousmane Ventura Miranda, María Isabel López-Saro, Sara María García González, Jessica Granero Molina, José Jiménez Lasserrotte, María Del Mar Fernández Sola, Cayetano female circumcision public health qualitative research violence women Approximately 200 million women and girls have undergone female genital mutilation (FGM) worldwide. Migration has spread the practice of FGM around the world, thus making it a global public health issue. The objective of this descriptive qualitative study was to explore the perceptions of Sub-Saharan immigrant women in Spain in relation to the causes of the persistence of FGM. In-depth interviews were carried out with 13 female FGM survivors of African origin, followed by inductive data analysis using ATLAS.ti software. Two main themes emerged from the analysis: (1) A family ritual symbolic of purification and (2) a system of false beliefs and deception in favour of FGM. The FGM survivors living in Europe are aware that FGM is a practice that violates human rights yet persists due to a system of false beliefs rooted in family traditions and deception that hides the reality of FGM from young girls or forces them to undergo the practice. The ritualistic nature of FGM and the threat of social exclusion faced by women who have not had it performed on them contributes to its persistence nowadays. 2021-12-22T12:07:00Z 2021-12-22T12:07:00Z 2021-12-18 info:eu-repo/semantics/article 1660-4601 http://hdl.handle.net/10835/13114 10.3390/ijerph182413341 en https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/18/24/13341 Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internacional http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess MDPI |
| spellingShingle | female circumcision public health qualitative research violence women Berthe-Kone, Ousmane Ventura Miranda, María Isabel López-Saro, Sara María García González, Jessica Granero Molina, José Jiménez Lasserrotte, María Del Mar Fernández Sola, Cayetano The Perception of African Immigrant Women Living in Spain Regarding the Persistence of FGM |
| title | The Perception of African Immigrant Women Living in Spain Regarding the Persistence of FGM |
| title_full | The Perception of African Immigrant Women Living in Spain Regarding the Persistence of FGM |
| title_fullStr | The Perception of African Immigrant Women Living in Spain Regarding the Persistence of FGM |
| title_full_unstemmed | The Perception of African Immigrant Women Living in Spain Regarding the Persistence of FGM |
| title_short | The Perception of African Immigrant Women Living in Spain Regarding the Persistence of FGM |
| title_sort | perception of african immigrant women living in spain regarding the persistence of fgm |
| topic | female circumcision public health qualitative research violence women |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/10835/13114 |
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