How? As ghosts. There are several ghosts to be found at dwemer ruins. You can even talk to one in the Tribunal main quest. For some funny reason your character is too dum dum to ask any questions from that ghost and others seem to just ignore any attempts at conversation.
So how are these entities still here and not erased from Nirn? Were only the living dwemer banished from Nirn? If so, how would you explain that the dwemer ruin in Tribunal had dust piles but there were still plenty ghosts to be found there?
Also Skyrim is coming in 11.11.11 and I hear dwemer ruins are confirmed. Think we`ll see more dwemer ghosts?