Ethnic minority young people play a significant role in the socio-economic growth of an ageing society with a decreasing fertility rate. The successful social integration of individuals with diverse cultural backgrounds within a society is a core value of the social work profession. This study examines the understanding of ethnic minority youth development in Hong Kong using a systematic review methodology. Risk prevention and positive promotion factors were identified using Bronfenbrenner’s ecological framework. Articles were searched through multiple databases in English, and 36 academic articles were reviewed. These studies mainly examined the risks of academic failure of these students in Hong Kong while few focused on the positive directions of multidimensional youth development. Future social work research and practice should examine positive youth development for ethnic minorities which can inform social work practice in Hong Kong and within other East Asian traditionally ethnically homogeneous societies undergoing significant changes in ethnic diversity.

在老年化社會，隨著出生率的下降，年輕少數族裔在香港的社會-經濟增長中扮演重要的角色。多元文化背景下，使個人能夠成功融入社會是社會工作專業的核心價值。本研究采用系統性檢閱方法對香港青年少數族裔的發展進行探究。本文還采用布朗菲布列納生態框架來分析少數族裔青少年風險防範和正向推動的因素。本文搜尋多個英語數據庫的論文，並檢閱了36篇相關學術論文。這些研究主要探究香港少數族裔學生學業失敗的危機，也有少部份聚焦探討青年多維度發展的正面方向。本文建議未來社會工作研究與實踐應探索少數族裔青年的正向發展，以幫助傳統種族單一的香港和東亞社會的社會工作實踐更好社會轉向種族多元的過程。

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