This paper is a reflection on youth unemployment and the judgments that occur when it relates to vagrancy and leisure. The text aims to make a historical-critical reconstruction of vagrancy in Mexico, from the notion of vagrancy and colonial leisure to the NiNis, as the last expression in the contemporary age. In conclusion, it can be determined that the negative beliefs about youth unemployment today are not well argued, and that its frame of reference is a historical view of vagrancy in the Latin American region.