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Go Back to Where You Came From

8 Pages 1899 Words August 2015

ants are told that they will meet and live with refugees who have reached the end of their journey and settled in Australia. Group 1 which included Raquel, Raye and Roderick were invited into the home of the African Masudis family, who settled in Australia legally. Group 2 which involved Gleny, Adam and Darren, travel to Liverpool to be introduced to several Iraqi men who arrived in Australia illegally. All participants enter the homes of these refugees to talk to them and hear about their refugee stories, before they go to Darwin to embark a boat trip of their own. This reverse structure affects the element of discovery by giving the participants a first-hand account of the ongoing trauma involved with being a refugee. Also, as a viewer you are able to realise that there is a reason behind why which participants entered which group. 21 year old unemployed Raquel from Western Sydney immediately mentions in the beginning of the first episode that: “I guess I’m a bit racist, I just don’t like Africans”; from this statement we are able to create a link to why she was placed in the group that was invited to spend time with an African family. This allowed her to confront her view on Africans and was a small step to assisting her in discovering the nature of humanity. Former military Daren from Adelaide had a very harsh opinion on illegal migration, he used the term “expatriated” when speaking about what should be the consequence of illegal immigrants, and he also stated confidently that immigrants come with only th...

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