This paper deploys Franz Kafka?s parables to open a space for forcibly displaced peoples traversing along many nation-states? border zones. Although much of its narrative depicts the forcibly displaced Karens? situations along the Thai-Burmese border zones, its organizing concern is with a general critique of the international protection regime. It does so by examining the intricate nexus between international juridical fabrics and nation-state?s juridical map, as well as juxtaposing this nexus with that of forcibly displaced peoples? cultural maps along border zones. Narrating incommensurabilities between the two kinds of geographies helps illuminate effects on Karen's ?irregular migration.? Those effects range from tragic memories and experiences to strategies for survival of the displaced Karens. The paper?s task is threefold. It starts by evincing a way of theorizing the interlocking relationship between nation-state?s sovereign power and the forcibly displaced peoples? bodies. Then, it contrasts the displaced peoples? politics of becoming with the nation-state?s politics of being, a bastion of the international protection regime. By so doing, this paper reenacts the displaced peoples? sufferings and experiences of the flesh, which have often been erased by the nation-state? practices of space and identity. Finally, utilizing the information gathered from my fieldwork along the Thai-Burmese border zones since 2000, not only do I challenge the national memory as well as the predicate of state-centric discourse on sovereignty, but I also attempt to resound the displaced Karens? struggles, abandoned along the Thai-Burmese border zones