Diaspora distress: When geopolitical conflict follows immigrant workers into the office

By Amir Bahman Radnejad and Brenda Nguyen Rostam does not sleep through the night anymore. At 2 a.m., when his phone buzzes, he’s awake before the sound finishes. It might be his parents calling from Tehran, on a connection that is unreliable, sporadic and sometimes cut off mid-sentence. He has lear...