The non-return of the second generation of the Uruguayan exile in Spain: inhabiting a not build space

Abstract

In this article I present some observations and insights drawn from my doctoral research where I approach the non-return of the second generation of the Uruguayan exile in Spain. From the interview as a unit of analysis, I have been compiling a common thread among the various speeches of this second generation that unveils biographies crossed by the experience of exile and reinvented from new vital circumstances and identitarian forms. In the absent space of the no return space, sons and daughters of exiled have been constructing new bonds with their home country, based on memories, on tangible and intangible heritage, and on the not legacies. So, from a sociological and autobiographical perspective, I describe the space from where this second generation revives the memory of exile and from where Uruguay inhabits today, from where it returns but not return.