Here's a love story that stretches across two decades, thousands of miles, and an international border. Rocio and Francisco are married but have kept their family together by living apart for the past 19 years. (more)

Much of the Sonoran desert between Tucson and Mexico is a haunting wasteland of discarded shoes, shirts, and empty plastic water jugs, discarded by desparate illegal immigrants who risk their lives as they cross the desert from Mexico into the United States in search of better-paying jobs. (more)

Guenet Sebsibe shows how she keeps an important Ethiopian cultural tradition alive. (more)

Decommissioned Soviet mousetraps in Brooklyn's Little Odessa. (more)

This hour: Two stories of people who are far away - physically, emotionally and/or spiritually from the place they call home. (more)

My grandparents had very little in common except for their appetite for couscous. (more)

This hour: the story of a harrowing journey on the Mediterranean Sea that started with high hopes and ended in tragedy. Plus Gwen and Julie discuss the (just announced) 2013 ShortDocs Challenge. (more)

As lawmakers continue to debate immigration reform, the Obama administration is pushing for a path to citizenship for those here illegally. (more)

Congratulations to the winners of the 2011 Third Coast/Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Competition! (more)

Growing up poor in Mexico City, Pilar dreamed of reuniting with her father who had moved to America years before. (more)

This hour: a story about the vagaries of memory, leaving a legacy, and elevating the personal narrative above the political mire. (more)

Announcing the winners of this year's Third Coast / Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Competition! (more)

This hour: change. Some of us crave it, some of us avoid it at all costs. But whenever and wherever it happens, change creates fallout, intentional or not. (more)

A personal musing about estrangement and its effects on language, cultural identity, and the meaning of home. (more)

Longtime New Yorkers recall family cooking traditions and foods from home that have been lost to immigration. (more)

From visceral empathy to intellectual understanding to emotional compassion, find out how you can realize that far-off, poverty-stricken, deathly ill, brown people are your neighbors, too. (more)

Clapping games and tongue twisters in multiple languages turn into rich stories when Judith Sloan records young immigrants in a theatre workshop. (more)

Re:sound's Gwen Macsai hosts this year's national broadcast, showcasing the best radio stories of the year - winners of the 2011 TC/RHDF Competition. (more)

Slavery in America still exists. In southwest Florida, for example, women and girls from Central America arrive everyday looking for a better life. (more)

Karla Saavedra, 17, moved to Brooklyn's Bushwick neighborhood from Mexico two years ago. (more)