Leanne Tory-Murphy
Visiting Scholar
Leanne Tory-Murphy is a writer, communications strategist for social movements, and legal support worker based in NYC. She conducted independent research in Palermo, Sicily from 2016-2018 on the asylum system, organized crime, and other migration-related themes, while working as a core member of the Sportello Sans Papiers, a migrant drop-in center and legal clinic. She is a graduate of the Macaulay Honors College of the City University of New York at Hunter College, and of the Global Journalism Fellowship at the Munk School of Global Affairs at the University of Toronto. Her work has been published in Jacobin, Refugees Deeply, Open Canada and VICE among other outlets.
Participating Years
2019–2020
Mobilizations and Migrations
However the international order is characterized, it is clear that various forms of internationalism are in distress. These are at work both in producing violent conflagration and in generating moving populations across the globe (migrant labor, refugees, asylum seekers, exiles, emigres, etc.). How, then, can internationalism be thought and articulated anew?