Intended Date of Award
2025
Degree Name
Doctorate in Management and Public Service (DMPS)
Chair
Dr. Kristen Norman, Ph.D.
Vice-Chair
Dr. Craig Waldron, D.P.A.
Committee Member
Dr. David Everett, Ph.D.
Second Committee Member
Ms. Alison Zelms, M.P.A.
Abstract
Immigrants’ integration plays an important part in policy concerns and goals in many local governments since it is a major issue for local officials to integrate immigrants and incorporate them into the host community successfully. Concurrently, it is important to know the roles of local public officials, host communities, and immigrants in the process. The purpose of this study is to assess the challenges that local officials face, and how they handle these encounters effectively and efficiently. Greater collaboration between all stakeholders, social cohesion, and collective efforts implies the idea that immigrants’ integration depends on many players and factors. It is hard to point out the best approach to follow in integrating immigrants since local officials adjust their roles and policies according to the needs, challenges, timing, and situation. Subjects in this study are the cities of Rochester and Worthington’s local officials, school officials, non-profit organizations, and immigrant-community leaders who all play interconnected roles in integrating immigrants; it is possible to identify each stakeholder's role but difficult to say that one party is more important than the other. Likewise, it is counterproductive to say that one role is better or more important than the other. The effectiveness of immigrant integration is a result of creating and implementing integration policies that emphasize partnerships between the public sector, private entities, non-profit organizations, and immigrants’ contributions.
Recommended Citation
Dassou, John, "Assessing Local Public Officials' Roles, Challenges, and Opportunities Encountered when Integrating Newcomers: A Case Study to Evaluate the Cities of Rochester and Worthington." (2025). School of Business Student Theses and Dissertations. 41.
https://digitalcommons.hamline.edu/hsb_all/41
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DigitalCommons@Hamline
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School of Business Student Theses and Dissertations
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