A growing number of young Oaxacans are leaving the state to study and work elsewhere, citing limited university options and poor job prospects.

In a quiet but growing exodus, young people from the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca are leaving their communities in increasing numbers, seeking university education and job opportunities that their home state can’t provide. It’s a migration driven not by dreams of distant lands, but by the frustration of being denied a future at home.

According to a recent report by Noticias Voz e Imagen . . .