Surgical Critical Resuscitation, Torrecárdenas University Hospital, 04009 Almeria, Spain.
Department of Nursing, Physiotherapy and Medicine, University of Almeria, 04120 Almeria, Spain.
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2021 Dec 18;18(24):13341. doi: 10.3390/ijerph182413341.
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.
全球约有 2 亿女性和女孩遭受过女性生殖器切割。移民使女性生殖器切割术在世界各地传播，因此成为一个全球公共卫生问题。本描述性定性研究的目的是探讨西班牙撒哈拉以南非洲移民妇女对女性生殖器切割术持续存在原因的看法。对 13 名来自非洲的女性生殖器切割幸存者进行了深入访谈，然后使用 ATLAS.ti 软件进行归纳数据分析。分析得出两个主要主题：(1) 象征净化的家庭仪式，以及 (2) 支持女性生殖器切割术的虚假信仰和欺骗系统。生活在欧洲的女性生殖器切割幸存者意识到，女性生殖器切割术是一种侵犯人权的行为，但由于根植于家庭传统和欺骗的虚假信仰体系，这种行为仍在继续，这种体系掩盖了女性生殖器切割术的真实情况，或者迫使年轻女孩接受这种行为。女性生殖器切割术的仪式性质以及未接受该手术的女性面临的社会排斥威胁，促成了它在当今的持续存在。
