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The female synthesis, the religious, cultural, etc. of the female external genital organs. It is described as being cut and taken on various levels. Historically, it is a tradition seen in the west, east and northern Africa and some regions of the Middle East and Asia. The form of practice identified in 29 countries differs from culture to culture. Today, however, it has almost a global scope of practice through migration, and dozens of women are exposed to sins every day. Parallelly, this spread has become a cultural practice that has begun to affect not only the applicable countries, but the entire world, especially because of its adverse effects on women’s health. At this point, international organizations have emphasized the violation of human rights of women's synthesis, while academic studies have made an effort to understand the tradition and context. This study, in the example of Somali refugees, discussed the female synthesis in the context of the relationship between culture and identity. The culture, while forming a society’s general lifestyle, is claimed to play a key role in the preservation and even legalization of some social rules and regulations in the adaptation to the new cultural environment after migration. Certainly, it is difficult for individuals to reject a tradition that is mainly in their cultural environments or to fight with that tradition. However, despite the increased possibility of a different cultural environment, individuals or groups are rejected or opposed, tradition(s) can sometimes be re-established. In this context, it will be related to why the tradition is re-established, the role of social life or group identity in the preservation. The main reason for women's synthesis to take the relationship between immigration, culture and identity as an explanatory example is that it is becoming an argument for the co-run of group identity among the Somalians in the refugee status. Somalians, civil war, poverty, hunger after drought, etc. As a result of asylum requests to Turkey, a satellite from the beginning of the 2000s began to be placed in the Burdur province. But the phenotypical and cultural differences between the Somali and the indigenous people have led the refugee group to live isolated from the majority group and not to be involved in the new cultural environment. Similarly, the view of Turkey as a temporary settlement until the demands for immigration to a third country are met, makes it more powerful to solve the problems of immigration-based harmony. Thus, in general, the host cannot be integrated into the culture, and the dynamics of culture and identity are resumed. The study, based on field research, was conducted through deep conversations with 30 Somali women. With a general description of the female synthesis, it is focused on how cultural dynamics are functional in the preservation of the group identity after migration. Following the data based on the field study, it was found that the female synthesis was reconstructed due to the relationship between culture and identity due to the feeling of the group identity being threatened. The ability to maintain the existence of a behavior, thought or attitude in the process of cultural change that occurs parallel to the diversification of the cultural environment depends on its functionality within the social structure.

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