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Literature review
According to Research Guides, a literature review is a justification for a publication on a specific topic that has been accredited by scholars and researchers. It is used to convey to a reader the reasoning behind a certain topic and its validity. It presents current knowledge, including useful findings, theoretical and methodological contributions to a particular topic. In a nutshell, the literature review gives an overview of the topic under discussion, methods, and gaps in the existing research (McCombes, 2020). A literature review is vital in shaping the research questions and the hypothesis.
The formulation of the problem statement is obtained from evaluating the available sources. The connections and relationships between sources organize the literature review’s arguments. Comprehensive knowledge of the literature is important for drawing out all the important issues to address in the research. Five steps are involved in the literature review; first, you search for the relevant literature. Secondly, evaluate the sources identifying themes and gaps. Lastly, the outline of the structure is determined before embarking on writing the review.
For my research, I will be focusing on human trafficking. For the development of my research, the literature review will help me build up the facts and my research basis. I will use various sources to gain useful findings, get the research questions, and the justification and hypothesis. The literature review from different articles will help me build a strong argument for my research. From my topic based on the review of several articles, I have learned the following; from my articles, human trafficking can be described as using force, fraud, or coercion to obtain some type of labor or commercial sex (Rothman et al., 2017). From the articles, I also discovered the areas of focus that have not been addressed in the previous research efforts. I also got a scope of the statistics that are involved in human trafficking. According to Dirienzo (2020), the global human trafficking statistics indicated that over 50 000 cases were reported from 2002 to 2008. The review also helped me understand how human trafficking has been proven to be extremely traumatizing. The abuse the victims are subjected to has permanent effects in their lives, which they find hard to live past.
References
McCombes, S. (2020, October 13). How to write a literature review. Scribbr. https://www.scribbr.com/dissertation/literature-review/
DiRienzo, C. E. (2020). Human Trafficking: What the New IOM Dataset Reveals. Journal of Research Guides: Reviews: From Systematic to Narrative: Literature Review. (n.d.). Https://Guides.Library.Uab.Edu/Sysrev/Litreview#:~:Text=A%20literature%20review%2C%20or%20lit,May%20stand%20on%20its%20own. https://guides.library.uab.edu/sysrev/litreview#:%7E:text=A%20literature%20review%2C%20or%20lit,may%20stand%20on%20its%20own.
Rothman, E. F., Stoklosa, H., Baldwin, S. B., Chisolm-Straker, M., Kato Price, R., Atkinson, H. G., & HEAL Trafficking. (2017). Public health research priorities to address US human trafficking.
Russell, A. (2017). Human Trafficking: A Research Synthesis on Human-Trafficking Literature in Academic Journals from 2000–2014. Journal of Human Trafficking, 4(2), 114–136. https://doi.org/10.1080/23322705.2017.1292377