“It Is Our Space”: The Formation of Diasporic Families’ Community Cultural Wealth Through Ethnic Sport Participation

In this study, we aimed to understand the formation of cultural assets within diasporic families through participation in ethnic sport. Yosso’s Community Cultural Wealth framework guided the study. An interpretive qualitative approach was employed to examine Korean diasporic families in the United States whose children are involved in Taekwondo, a Korean ethnic sport. Data were collected through interviews and observations. Our analysis revealed the development of four forms of Community Cultural Wealth: linguistic, familial, navigational, and resistant capitals, along with the newly identified transnational capital. These forms were developed and nurtured through learning ethnic language, cultural practices and heritages, bonding with families, building cultural ownership, and developing self-confidence and self-protection skills. We propose advancing the use of the Community Cultural Wealth framework in sport management and offer implications for optimizing the use of ethnic sport to create more inclusive and diverse spaces for diasporic communities’ sport participation.