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Control of a border, especially by building walls or fences, is a major way of asserting sovereignty over a territory. It also participates directly in a politics of security, mirroring the ancient ramparts that used to surround cities. There is a continuum between this physical protectionism and a politics of internal security. Preventing foreigners and undesirables from crossing the borders also belongs to an expanded vision of security that includes keeping populations deemed dangerous for the maintenance of national cohesion at a distance. The notion of cultural insecurity extends this approach by encouraging the rejection of ideologies judged threatening to the identity of a people. (Muslim populations combine the two variables.) Independence thus also means defending identity and homogeneity, in all possible ways. The various facets of national protectionism constitute a major axis of populist political culture.