 Hakkas from Meixian and French Indochina began to arrive around the same time as those from Mauritius, in the late 1880s.As in other overseas Chinese communities, conflict between Cantonese- and Hakka-speakers was a common feature of social life, and the two groups tried to avoid contact with each other; the Hakka migrants settled in the south of the island, especially at Saint-Pierre and Le Tampon.Re-migration from Mauritius to Réunion continued in this manner until around 1940.