A key expectation regarding immigrants is that they need to integrate into mainstream society. Some countries have social programs to meet this ideal, while the US Government has largely left immigrants to integrate through their own means or receive help though non-profit organizations. One measure of integration is comparable trips for socialization and recreation. In this paper, we asked how divergent was daily trip frequency by immigrants versus US-born individuals across various trip purposes. We used the 2017 National Household Travel Survey data at the person level and estimated a series of trip frequency models where our outcome variables were daily trips by purposes. We controlled for socio-economic and demographic factors at the person and household levels, as well as for characteristics of the home location. We found that immigrants made fewer social, recreational, or errand trips than US-born individuals, which could slow their integration. However, immigrants made more exercise and education trips than US-born individuals. There was no statistical difference between the two populations for daily frequency of work trips. The need for policies encouraging social and recreation trips for immigrants, and exercise and education trips for US-born individuals, is indicated from this research.

对移民的主要期望是他们需要融入主流社会。一些国家制定了实现这一理想的社会计划，而美国政府在很大程度上却让移民通过自己的方式融入社会或通过非营利组织获得帮助。融合的一项措施是进行社交和娱乐活动的可比旅行。在本文中，我们询问了在各种旅行目的下，移民与美国出生的个人每天的旅行频率有何不同。我们在人员级别使用了2017年全国家庭旅行调查数据，并估计了一系列旅行频率模型，其中我们的结果变量是按目的进行的每日旅行。我们控制了个人和家庭层面的社会经济和人口因素，以及住所位置的特征。我们发现，与美国出生的人相比，移民进行的社会，娱乐或出差旅行较少，这可能会减慢他们的融合速度。但是，移民比美国出生的人进行更多的运动和教育旅行。每天工作旅行的频率在两个人群之间没有统计学差异。这项研究表明，需要采取政策鼓励移民进行社交和娱乐旅行，以及对美国出生的个人进行锻炼和教育旅行。