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The present article is a reflection on the academic situation of boys, girls and teenagers, mainly indigenous, who travel with their parents, other grown relatives or alone, from their native state of Oaxaca, México, to other northern states of the country or the United States of America. Additionally, it pretends to contribute to the analysis of the educational aspect of the migration phenomenon, that paradoxically in México, is the least often investigated in comparison to other political, economic, social and cultural aspects studies more in depth. However, this highly contradictory, since thousands of children and adolescents daily abandon school and their communities in order to emigrate to different destinies, interrupting their studies, experiencing situation of rejection, disapproval and temporal or definite academic desertion. The first part presents the current situation of migration in Mexico and, particularly, in Oaxaca. Later, the infant and adolescent migrant population is seen as well as the repercussion of this phenomenon has on the educational situation. And lastly, the presentation an commentaries on the actions taken by the educational institutions of the Mexican State to handle the academic problem of this highly vulnerable population within the migrant processes.
