Rik Huizinga is an Assistant Professor in Urban Geographies of Gender, Migration and Belonging at the Human Geography and Spatial Planning Department of Utrecht University (UU). His research draws upon debates in urban social and cultural geography to investigate new and problematic social and cultural relations in the context of globalisation, migration and societal change. It draws attention to the ways in which structural forms of marginalisation (ageism, racism, sexism, capitalism) shape peoples’ everyday lives and highlights the variegated forms of resistance people display to counter exclusionary practices. Rik’s main areas of research include topics around gender, masculinity and intersectionality; refugees, migration and settlement; and young people, identity and equality. His doctoral dissertation ‘Making Home in Forced Displacement: Young Syrian Men Navigating Geographies of Migration, Masculinities and Belonging’ applies a relational and intersectional perspective to study the gendered politics of home after forced resettlement. Rik has published on gender, masculinities and migration-related issues in high-quality journals such as Gender, Place and Culture, Ethnic and Racial Studies, Geoforum and Urban Geography. He also authored the entry on ‘Men, masculinities, and Intersectionality in Forced Migration’ in the Oxford Handbook of Intersectional Approaches to Migration, Gender, and Sexuality and ‘Masculinities’ in the International Encyclopedia of Human Geography. He is currently a member of the Gender, Sexuality and Migration (GenSeM) steering group of IMISCOE.