Channel 4’s immigration ‘experiment’ isn’t worth the controversy ...Middle East

Based on an Australian programme, the series takes six Britons with strongly opposing views on the hot potato subject and jets them off to such war-wrecked destinations as Somalia and Syria. Later in the series, they will retrace the dangerous routes taken by smuggled migrants. The idea is seemingly to present them with the dire circumstances that so many people are attempting to escape and challenge entrenched viewpoints.

Jess, whose Welsh village houses an asylum centre, believes that “people coming over are rapists and paedophiles”, and Chloe from Richmond thinks that “Islam will have taken over” in ten years’ time. At this point you might be sympathising with the Amnesty staffer who reportedly dubbed the show “racist across the world”, a reference to the BBC’s Race Across the World.

Mathilda, Nathan and Jess find themselves in danger in Somalia (Photo: Minnow/Channel 4)

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In the opening episode Mathilda, Jess and Nathan are thrown together in Mogadishu in Somalia, while Dave, Bushra and Chloe find themselves in Raqqa – or what remains of the Syrian city after Isis was driven out.

What confrontations we witness barely dignify the word – more like talking over each other – although laddish Dave is challenged by Bushra when he says that he jokingly uses a slur for Muslims. And when Chloe offers the reasonable suggestion that help should focus on people rebuilding their lives in their own country, Bushra immediately shuts her down by calling her a “narcissistic sociopath”. Not helpful.

Bushra, Dave and Chloe meet a family in Raqqa, Syria in May last year (Photo: Channel 4)

Channel 4 claim they want to “challenge preconceptions and ignite the national debate”. Whether or not that happens over the next two episodes, what Go Back to Where You Came From does well is provide rare insights into the terrible plight of millions of poor and displaced people.

‘Go Back to Where You Came From’ continues next Monday at 9pm on Channel 4

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