Has it changed anyone’s mind?

“Within 10 years, Britain will be full of people who wear cow.

“Islam will take over.”

Do not leave the first words from Chloe Dubes on the display of Channel 4 to the place where you have a large area of ​​doubt.

The 24 -year -old YouTube and the conservative political commentator from Cornwall know that her views were “controversial”.

So the program was. Some charities accused the platform of “poisonous views” and giving a distorted idea of ​​what the refugees really experience.

But after throwing it with other five British – all of this with different views about migration – did anyone think?

In the four -part series, filmed in May and June 2024, the participants were divided into two groups – one traveling from Syria, one of Somalia.

They spent weeks, accompanied by security teams, in the wake of the same ways used by refugees from Somalia and Syria to reach the United Kingdom.

Modern numbers from the government He suggested that more than 5,000 Syrians have applied for asylum in the United Kingdom in the year ending in September 2024, with 940 requests from Somalis.

In the same time period, 3,385 people who arrived from Syria on small boats – the third most common nationality that comes to the United Kingdom in this way.

Charity is free from torture The show was criticized as “inhuman and dangerously, frankly”.

She said that the real refugees will not have the same resources and the program “can never transfer the inability to predict and the risk of what this journey actually feels.”

Chloe traveled to the United Kingdom from Syria, where the United Nations estimates that 14 million people were forced to flee their homes after the outbreak of the civil war in 2011.

In this series, she was seen associated with her colleague Brett Busher Sheikh, who had a more sympathetic position with immigrants and refugees.

Since her return to the United Kingdom, Chloe says she is able to see the crisis more than her point of view.

“The purification is the word that I will use to describe the position in which there are many people,” says Chloe.

“We have really seen a lot of tragic things.”

Meanwhile, Mathilda Mallinson traveled to Somalia.

The 29 -year -old journalist from London has previous experience in working in refugee camps and tells newsbeat that “she did not expect my views to change greatly.”

But by spending a lot of time with other participants, she says she learned to be more understanding of different views.

“I don’t really think that the polarized, hot and angry debate makes anyone closer to the middle land,” she says.

“The main part of the trip for me was only listening to the reasons for people feeling in different ways.

“I was never the one who helped them see … he would come from meeting the refugees themselves.”

Chloe and Mathilda agree that more must be done to build a better understanding of the UK immigrant crisis.

“The thing on which the media focuses in general is the crossing from France to Britain,” says Chloe.

“It is very easy to think, if you see news in the United Kingdom, that all displaced people in the world, they all come to Britain.

“When there are millions and millions of people elsewhere in the world.”

McAthda agreed, saying that she was surprised by the size of the problem away from Europe, which she rarely saw.

“It was very overwhelmingly seeing the size of the displacement crisis,” she says when they visited Dadab in Kenya, which included the largest refugee camp in the world.

“This is what we need to see more in telling stories in our coverage of the refugee crisis, because it really helps to put what we deal with in the United Kingdom and in Europe.”

After now returning to the United Kingdom, Chloe says she received “hateful messages” when the show was broadcast, but her experience has definitely changed her views “on a lot of things.”

She says she did not do “180” from where she started and still calls for “very strong examination operations” for immigrants who want to legally come to the United Kingdom.

But she says, “I really started seeing these people, instead of criminals, as human beings in a very traumatized position.”

“He definitely gave me a lot of sympathy for what people are going through.”

“It is important for the series to represent a group of strong opinions on immigration in the UK,” fourth channel spokesman told newsbeat.

“To be able to challenge those opinions that we need to be able to broadcast,” they said.

“The goal of the program is to enlighten the minds and openness to different views.

“The shareholders begin with opinions, but these opinions are challenged and develop throughout the series.”

In response to criticism from charitable institutions such as freedom from torture, Channel 4 said that it worked closely with “a number of charitable institutions for refugees … in order to ensure the reflection of living experiences as accurately as possible.”

They added: “We acknowledge that the series cannot repeat the risk of pledging a truly refugee trip, but an exceptionally” narrow security protocol “was placed in its place while filming” as a duty of care for our shareholders. “

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