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NPR's Maria Hinojosa revisits a Cuban family she last saw boarding a makeshift raft headed towards the United States. Nine months later the family has settled in Miami, but they are far from happy with their new life.

A new program in Seattle brings together officers and people who often avoid them, starting with refugee women.

An independent documentary produced and directed by two Durham residents chronicles the journey of three refugee families, from their home country of…

NPR's Michael Sullivan reports on the Afghan refugee crisis. Even though the border is technically closed, Afghan refugees are streaming into Pakistan, fleeing drought, war and winter. Aid agencies are finding it difficult to cope.

NPR's Jennifer Ludden reports from Goma, Zaire that tens of thousands of Rwandan refugees suddenly began flooding back to Rwanda today. The dramatic development came after an exiled Rwandan Hutu militia abandoned a vast refugee camp a few miles outside of Goma. For the past two years the Hutu militiamen had prevented the refugees from returning to Rwanda, whose Tutsi-led government is fighting the exiles. The breakthrough comes as the international community finalizes plans for a multinational force to help get food and medicine to those refugees remaining in Zaire.

NPR News' Michael Sullivan reports a year after the violence and destruction that followed East Timor's vote for independence, tens of thousands of refugees have not returned home. They remain in refugee camps in West Timor, where aid officials and some refugees say they are being threatened and intimidated by pro-Indonesian militias. There is some evidence that the militias are staging raids across the border into East Timor. U.N. officials say the situation is not likely to improve until the Indonesian government gets the militias out of the camps.

The crisis has stirred the conscience of the world, but the fact that most of the refugees are Muslim complicates the picture for some.

NPR's Michael Skoler reports that as the civil war in eastern Zaire rages on, a large number of Rwandan refugees remain unable, and in some cases unwilling, to return home. Relief groups estimate there are some four hundred thousand Rwandan Hutus stuck inside Zaire, with as many as half of them missing. In one large camp, there are reports of at least thirty deaths a day from malnutrition and disease. Many among the refugees took part in the 1994 genocide in Rwanda and do not want to return for fear of arrest.

Hamid Karzai is favored to win next month's Afghan presidential elections, but he could use the support of Afghan refugees. Millions of refugees in neighboring Pakistan and Iran hope to vote in the election. NPR's Philip Reeves reports.

Pastor Joel Kruggel of the Bethany Covenant Church in Bedford talks about his congregation's work providing Sudanese refugees with their own place of…