The Ilocano Migration: Diaspora or Globalization?

According to Nestor Palugod Enriquez, Filipinos, most probably G.I.s, first settled in America as early as 1765 through the Galleon Trade along the bays of Louisiana prior to the celebrated 1906 landing in Honolulu, Hawaii. In fact, another set of settlers who were believed as musicians, also landed in Honolulu by early 19th century.
Fortunately for the first 15 Ilocanos, they were the first recorded migrants. This year, the entirety of Hawaii with the majority of Ilocanos (who are the third largest ethnic groups in the Pacific islands) are celebrating the Centennial.
That is just an icing of the cake.
Ilocanos have been noted to be the most migratory ethnic group in the entire world, as was published in a 1986 campus supplementary magazine (sorry folks, hard as I might, I can't recall the newsmagazine anymore, it's most probably an Ibon publication).
Agpayso ngata daytoy?
In a conversation with DFA regional director Martin Valera, he acknowledged that this notion might probably true, because in most of his travels abroad as a DFA official, he had encountered Ilocanos in most and even remotest areas of the world.
Likewise, it is worthy of note that overseas workers and migrants have kept the Philippine economy afloat. Well, for some political observers (who were not Ilocanos, probably), the remittances make up for the lack of performances of our elected officials (who they say were mostly the cohorts of the late strongman, and, uhm, Ilocanos).
Nevertheless, northern Luzon is now a mixture of ethnicities as Bicolanos, Visayans, Tagalogs, Pampanguenos, among others have migrated throughout the Ilocandia due to intermarriage as well as economic reasons.
The area (regions 1 and 2) remain as one of the deprived areas of the archipelago due to lack of substantial income opportunities, but this is of course very national in nature as most areas remain more than deprived, like the agriculture rich Mindanao and the rest of southern Luzon.
...more to come...