Has Channel 4 Immigration Show Branded toxic has changed someone’s mind?

“In 10 years of time, Britain is full of people wearing burqas.

“Islam will take over.”

Chloe Dobs’s first word go back to Channel 4 Reality Show where you came, he did not leave much space for doubt.

Cornwal’s 24 -year -old YouTuber and conservative political commentator know that his opinion was “controversial”.

So it was the program. Some charity accused it of placing “toxic ideas” and gave a perverted idea of ​​what goes through refugees.

But after throwing five other Britis – with different ideas on all immigration – has it changed someone’s thinking?

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

They spent weeks, along with security teams, followed by routes used to reach the UK after similar routes as Somalia and Syria.

Recent figures from government Suggest that more than 5,000 Syrians applied for asylum in the UK in the year ending September 2024, with 940 applications from Somalians.

At the same time, 3,385 people arriving from Syria came on small boats – thus the third most common nationality in Britain.

Freedom of charity from torture The show was criticized as “inhuman and lowly dangerous”,

It said that real refugees would not have the same resources and the program can never tell the danger of “unexpectedness and how that journey really feels”.

Cloo traveled from Syria to Britain, 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 the series, he was seen confrontation with partner Brit Bushra Sheikh, who had a more sympathetic attitude towards migrants and refugees.

Since returning to the UK Cloe, she says that she is able to see the crisis more than her perspective.

Cloo says, “Pergtery is the word that I will use to describe the situation that are so many people,” now the crisis is being seen closely.

“We really saw the stuff very heartbroken.”

Meanwhile, Mathilda Mallinson traveled to Somalia.

The 29 -year -old journalist from London has a previous experience of working in refugee camps and tells the newsbeat that “she was not expecting my ideas a lot on immigration”.

But by spending so much time with other participants, she says that she has learned to have more understanding about various approaches.

“I really don’t think that the polarized, hot, angry debate gets to anyone close to the middle ground,” she says.

“For me, an important part of the journey was just listening to the reasons that people feel different.

“I was never going to be a person who helped him see … who was going to come by himself to meet the refugees.”

Both Chloe and Maithilda agree that the UK must be made more to make a better understanding of the migrant crisis.

“The media on which the media focuses is usually crossing from France to Britain,” says Cloo.

“It is very easy to think, if you only see news in Britain, that all people in the world, they are all coming to Britain.

“When there are really millions and millions of people in other places in the world.”

Mathilda agrees, saying that she was surprised on the scale of the problem away from Europe, which she rarely saw.

“This displacement was very heavy to see the scale of crisis,” she says that when she visited Dadab in Kenya, the world’s largest refugee camp was in the east.

“This is what we need to see more in telling our story in our coverage of refugee crisis, because it helps to keep what we are actually doing in Britain and Europe in proportion.”

Now back in Britain, Cloo says that when the show aired, it received a “disgusting message”, but his experience certainly has “changed his thoughts to a lot of things”.

She says that she has not done “full 180” from where she started and still advocates “very strong veating processes” for migrants that legally want to come to Britain.

But, she says: “I really started looking at these people, rather than only criminals, as humans who are completely in heart position.”

“It definitely gives me a cat of much more sympathy as to what people are doing.”

A spokesman for a channel 4 told Newsbeat that “it was important that the series represented several strong views on immigration in the UK”

“To be able to challenge those ideas, we needed to be able to broadcast them,” he said.

“The purpose of the program is to open and open the brain for different approaches.

“The contributors begin with ideas, but those ideas are challenged and developed during the series.”

Answer to criticism from charities such as Freedom from Torment, Channel 4 said that it had “worked with several refugee donations … … to ensure that living experiences were accurately reflected” .

“We admit that the series cannot completely repeat the danger of the refugee travel for real,” he said, but “extraordinaryly tight security protocol” during filming “our contributors look for form of care of our contributors during filming Was kept in.

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