Since the second decade of the 21st century, rural young people begin to be part of the national government's discourses, through entrepreneurship programs and productive projects, which seek to encourage generational relief in the Colombian countryside and the roots in rural territories, ignoring other reasons that according to the literature motivate young people to migrate, such as land concentration, environmental problems or the expectations imposed by globalization. Through intertextual analysis, a type of narrative analysis of public policy, exposed by Emery Roe in his book Narrative Policy Analysis: Theory and Practice (1994) related to the hermeneutical models of Michael Riffaterre, 42 documents were reviewed and codified. that allowed to identify the sociolects or imaginaries about rural youth and migration, the manipulation of these imaginaries (idiolects) and later the intertextuality between the different groups analyzed; to decipher how, starting from different imaginations about why rural youth are forced to migrate, the same recommendations or public policy actions are formulated. Concluding that, although young people are beginning to be seen in the institutional discourse, public policy undergoes little change and does not adapt to the contexts of youth over the years. Given that this is a little-explored topic, this research seeks to provide methodological tools for future research in the field of public policy analysis from intertextuality.