The official home of the big bold podcast finding the heartwarming, heartbreaking and sometimes hilarious stories of American refugees. People coming into America, people moving out of America, people getting displaced within the country. You’re about to hear remarkable stories rooted in the most pressing human rights challenges of our time. Get ready to be enchanted by the tenacity and beauty of the human spirit! This is American Refugee.
He's a black man with a pit bull. You're about to join Sam Reeves, a black man from Northside Minneapolis, walking his pit bull in Southside Minneapol...
During the Vietnam War, The CIA coopt the Hmong in Laos to fight communism. The American people aren't told. An estimated 300,000 Hmong die during the...
Because invasive species are, right now, endangering our habitat, water and food systems on which we Americans depend to survive. To 'Stop The Spread'...
Minneapolis has become America. The murder of George Floyd. The killing of Daunte Wright. A country of 330M turns its collective eye to Minneapolis. T...
This episode is about a different kind of displacement - rock musicians forcibly removed from doing the only thing they know how to do. Live rock is t...
To circumvent the final and busiest immigration checkpoint in Texas, Central American migrants illegally crossing into the United States go on a 20-mi...
They come on temporary visas to do academic research at major U.S. universities. They're now responsible for creating more American patents than their...
He came to the United States when he was 9 years old. He's now a U.S. Marine leading the most intense online fitness workouts. Today, he's known as th...
A young mother from Guatemala, victim of domestic violence, takes her kids on a perilous journey to the US where Mom applies for asylum. Mom makes it ...
Gregorio Montejo, a Mexican immigrant, after 25 years of working in the United States is taken to Sherburne County Jail. Now his family is fighting to...