Since seminal work of Tarski (e.g. Tarski, 1935), hierarchies have been much discussed in the literature on truth and paradox. Especially in recent years, this discussion has been decidedly negative. Tarski’s hierarchy of languages is sometimes described as the “orthodox” response to the Liar paradox (e.g. Kripke, 1975), but it is an orthodoxy many authors have gone to great lengths to avoid. F...

This paper proposes to rethink the agriculture–migration nexus through notions of temporal fix and migrant hierarchies. Its empirical setting is post-socialist migration Latvians who move Channel Island Guernsey Norway, where they take temporary jobs picking crops such as tomatoes strawberries. I analyse both how agricultural migrants are viewed by others evaluate themselves. The research mater...