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On 8 August 1991, thousands of Albanians arrived in Bari aboard an overcrowded cargo ship. 35 years later, as Ceuta tests Europe’s new migration architecture, the words of Bari’s mayor Enrico Dalfino offer an uncomfortable measure of how far Europe’s migration debate has travelled: can Europe still say “they are people”?