Operations research and analytics to combat human trafficking: A systematic review of academic literature.

ABSTRACT: Human trafficking is a widespread and compound social, economic, and human rights issue occurring in every region of the world. While there have been an increasing number of anti-human trafficking studies from the Operations Research and Analytics domains in recent years, no systematic review of this literature currently exists. We fill this gap by providing a systematic literature review that identifies and classifies the body of Operations Research and Analytics research related to the anti-human trafficking domain, thereby illustrating the collective impact of the field to date. We classify 142 studies to identify current trends in methodologies, theoretical approaches, data sources, trafficking contexts, target regions, victim-survivor demographics, and focus within the well-establishe

SUBMITTER: Dimas GL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9423650 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature