Aware of the increasing number of migrants worldwide, and bearing in mind the situation of vulnerability in which migrants and their families frequently find themselves, owing, inter alia, to their absence from their States of origin and to the difficulties they encounter because of differences of language, custom and culture, as well as the economic and social difficulties and obstacles to the return to their States of origin of migrants who are non-documented or in an irregular situation,
意识到全世界移徙者的人数日益增加，并铭记移徙者及其家属往往因离开始发国，因语言、习俗和文化不同遇到种种困难而处于易受伤害的境地，以及无证或身份不正常的移徙者碰到的各种经济和社会困难及返回始发国时遇到的障碍，