Today we’ll explore why Tamil women on Sri Lanka's tea plantations work in formal and informal labor economies in and beyond Sri Lanka. We’re joined by Mythri Jegathesan, Assistant Professor in the Anthropology Department at Santa Clara University and Bannan Institute Scholar in the Ignatian Center for Jesuit Education. Her research focuses on gender, labor, minority politics, and development in the global south, specifically Sri Lanka and South Asia and she currently serves on the board of the American Institute for Sri Lankan Studies.