Go Back To Where You Came From is an Australian documentary/reality show in which participants are given the opportunity to experience what the life of refugee and asylum seeker can be like, albeit edited and packaged for an audience. During the course of the three hour long series, the six individuals not only have the chance to get under the skin of a refugee in terms of achieving a greater degree of insight into what being a refugee really means, but also to get on the viewing audiences nerves in perhaps all or any of the of the first three senses described above. Moreover the refugees participating in the series may ‘get under the skin’ of the programme participants and the television audience, in the sense of irritating them or compellingly pre-occupying them.
In Go Back six Australian’s journey in the footsteps of refugees and asylum seekers. Their journey, however is undertaken in reverse; from meeting with boat people and refugees in resettlement sites in Australia, through a boat journey, and transit in Malaysia, to sites of first refuge in Kenya and Jordan, and ultimate just those places the refugees and asylum seekers fled from, namely, Iraq and the Democratic
Republic of Congo. The show addresses the participants emotionality during their journey and show that bringing them close to these refugees and asylum seekers not only result in the sensuous experience of disgust, but also that of the socially pain.
Raye
Although Raquel, more than any other participant, “embodies” the emotion of disgust throughout the series, the first episode begins by introducing Raye , the retired social worker, to the viewers in this sequence; Narrator; Raye Colby’s comfort zone is a small farm in the Adelaide Hills. Raye; It’s just so peaceful, you’ve got your own space and you’re sort of like in a little Utopia Narrator; Raye though she was living in paradise until the neighbours moved in Raye;