One of the participants in an upcoming SBS documentary has described how she was shot at by insurgents after filmmakers took her within 800m of the Islamic State front line in Syria.

Kim Vuga has also revealed that she considered joining Kurdish fighters in the war against Islamic State but thoughts of her family prevented her from staying behind.

"At one stage we were 800m from the front line and definitely getting shot at," said Vuga, one of six participants in Go Back To Where You Came From, a three-part series that aims to question pre-conceived ideas about asylum seekers.