Go Back To Where You Came From

2012 • SBS
4.8
31 reviews
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Season 3 episodes (3)

1 Episode 1
7/27/15
Season-only
Tempers flare early when six Australians move in with refugees who were once 'boat people'. Denied access, two of the participants get a bird's-eye view of Wickham Point Detention Centre near Darwin before a fiery debate ensues outside its perimeter fence. Retracing their refugee hosts' journeys, the participants travel to Indonesia where they board a fishing boat typically used by people smugglers and head for an unknown destination.
2 Episode 2
7/28/15
Season-only
The six Australians get a first-hand experience of Australia's 'turn back the boats' policy when they're transferred from a people smuggler's boat to an orange lifeboat and turned back to Indonesia. Then they live with asylum seekers who have been turned back by the Australian navy. One group treks through the Thai jungle to discover how asylum seekers are trafficked and sold in to slavery. The other group visits the world's newest city - a refugee camp built out of the Jordanian desert and home to more than 80,000.
3 Episode 3
7/29/15
Season-only
Following a reverse refugee journey, one group visits an unofficial camp housing many of the 140,000 ethnic minority who fled their homes two years earlier. The series builds to a dramatic conclusion as the other group visits two of the most dangerous places on Earth and is fired at by ISIS insurgents. At the end of the journey the two groups are reunited in Cambodia to assess the impact of their experience.

About this show

In this groundbreaking three part series, six ordinary Australians agree to challenge their preconceived notions about refugees and asylum seekers by embarking on a confronting 25 day journey. Tracing in reverse the journeys that refugees have taken to reach Australia, they travel to some of the most dangerous and desperate corners of the world, with no idea what is in store for them along the way. Deprived of their wallets, phones and passports, they board a leaky refugee boat, are rescued mid ocean, experience immigration raids in Malaysia, live in Kenyan refugee camps and visit slums in Jordan before ultimately making it to the Democratic Republic of Congo and Iraq, protected by UN Peacekeepers and the US military. For some of them, it's their first time abroad. For all of them, it's an epic journey and the most challenging experience of their lives.

Ratings and reviews

4.8
31 reviews
Josephine Beggs
August 15, 2015
I think before anyone opens their mouth on this subject they should watch this show.
Em D
March 18, 2014
This should be shown on "mainstream media"
Ali Wilson
July 30, 2015
Excellent and engaging television. Everyone should watch this show.