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Go Back To Where You Came From (2011)

Go Back To Where You Came From poster
Genre
documentary television program
Country
Australia

How it feels

The series takes Australians with strong opposing views on refugees and sends them on a reverse refugee journey. They experience the hardships and dangers that asylum seekers face firsthand.

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What happens

Go Back to Where You Came From is an Australian TV documentary series. It was produced by Cordell Jigsaw Productions and broadcast in 2011 (Season 1), 2012 (Season 2), 2015 (Season 3) and 2018 (Season 4) on SBS. The series followed two parties, each of six Australians, all members having differing opinions on Australia's asylum seeker debate, being taken on a journey in reverse to that which refugees have taken to reach Australia. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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