Circular and temporary migrations have become important concepts at the global and EU-level and have elicited remarkable interest among policy-makers and scholars, notably in relation to the wider issue of migration and development. The preparation of the national contribution to the EMN study on circular and temporary migration has shown that, in Luxembourg, both political and civil society actors are unfamiliar with the concept of circular migration, which is virtually absent in political or societal debates. To a lesser degree, this also applies to temporary migration.