[Female genital modification: survey of new phenomenon for nurses today]

The immigration that there was in Italy in the last years has provoked a big cultural and social change for the country. Nurses that belong to social sector cannot escape from that change, and they have got to admit those new reality and develop new assistential and analysis methodologies. The immigrants that arrive in Italy came from more than 150 counties in the world, poor countries of the third world. The object of this research is to find out how nursing profession confronts itself with a new multiculture situation, the way to conciliate the ethical principles of the profession with the different cultures and learning that medical operators of an Italian hospital got about the immigrants: MGF (feminine genital modifications). The research wants to understand this phenomenon that is very diffuse, so the meeting with the differences is a reason to develop and not a imposition of a value on the other value.