There was a real danger that Kosovar asylum-seekers were being forgotten, Ms Valerie Hughes of the Kosova-Ireland Solidarity group has said.
Some 200 Kosovars looked for asylum in the State last year and they were "suffering desperately," she said.
Many of the 700 who returned under the repatriation scheme were in regular contact. The young people, she said, were finding it particularly difficult. They had no work, no jobs, and the repatriation grants of £5,000 per adult and £2,000 per child have been spent in restoring burnt-out homes.
Ms Hughes said those who went home would like to return to Ireland and a number were about to apply for work visas. But the ultimate solution was to forge trade links and to get the local economies going.
Her group has begun approaching chambers of commerce and FAS centres "to urge them to take an interest in setting up projects in Kosova". The plight of Kosovars also worries Mr Des O'Malley TD, chairman of the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs.
"Despite the horrific suffering many of them have experienced, they remain unemployed, alienated and marginalised. Yet despite this growing humanitarian crisis, there now exists the real threat, with the eclipse of the Milosevic regime, that the plight of these victims of Serbian aggression will slip further down the international agenda," according to Mr O' Malley.
Efforts to regenerate Serbia should not be at the expense of Bosnia and Kosovo, which had been the victims of Serbian aggression, he warned.
How Kosovars have made the transition from home to Ireland and back is the subject of one of three stories featured on the Citizens programme on RTE 1 tonight. Killarney Kosovar Blerton Sahiti was one of 200 refugees who arrived in Kerry from Kosovo in May 1999. He returned over a year later to his native city of Ferizaj.
In the meantime, the now 17year-old achieved a pass in his Junior Cert at Killarney Community College - a remarkable achievement given Blerton had no English when he arrived.
The cameras trace his journey from Killarney National Park in the days before his departure from Shannon airport to his destroyed home.
One of the things he misses most is his part-time job at a local fast-food outlet.
"His job gave him a sense of independence, and a sense of self-worth," Mr Eoin O'Shea, associate producer of the Citizens programme, says.
Citizens goes out on RTE 1 at 7 tonight.