Exploring support for medicalized female genital mutilation/cutting: A study on migrant women living in Italy
Livia Elisa Ortensi, Patrizia Farina, Daniela Carrillo, Enrico Ripamonti, Joyce Jebet Cheptum, Emma Campbell, Achenef Muche, Achenef Muche, Achenef Muche
TL;DR
This study explores how migrant women in Italy view medically performed female genital mutilation/cutting and finds that higher education and cultural factors influence support for the practice.
Contribution
The study provides new insights into FGM/C support among migrant women in Italy, focusing on the role of medicalization and socio-demographic factors.
Findings
Medicalization of FGM/C correlates with higher education, age, being in a couple, and origin from countries where it is more commonly medicalized.
Religious approval, marriage prospects, cleanliness, and cultural conformity are perceived benefits linked to medicalized FGM/C support.
Higher education is a critical but not exclusive factor in supporting medicalized FGM/C.
Abstract
The medicalization of female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) as a harm reduction strategy is a highly debated issue, although largely unexplored among migrants living outside practising countries. This study investigates the extent of the support for FGM/C conditioned on its medicalization among migrant women from FGM/C-practising countries residing in Italy, and the characteristics of women supporting the practice. Data are from a national survey on FGM/C conducted in Italy in 2016, covering a representative sample of 1,378 women aged 18 + who were born in Nigeria, Egypt, Eritrea, Senegal, Burkina Faso, Somalia, and Ivory Coast. A discrete choice framework and a multinomial probit choice model are adopted to analyze women’s preferences about FGM/C continuation and medicalization. Findings indicate that, compared with women who support the practice unconditionally, the requirement of…
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Taxonomy
TopicsFemale Genital Mutilation/Cutting Issues · Genital Health and Disease · Reproductive Health and Contraception